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  • The Wreck of the Mentor

    A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    **“An exciting and at times almost unbelievably dramatic story” — Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street JournalNew York Times • “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026”Goodreads • Readers’ Most Anticipated Books of Summer…and the Rest of the Year!Kirkus • 40 Hottest Reads for Summer of 2026An astonishing true story—one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century—told by ... Read more

    $19.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Left for Dead

    Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    The true story of five castaways abandoned on the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812—a tale of treachery, shipwreck, isolation, and the desperate struggle for survival.In Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin—“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)—tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Leviathan

    The History of Whaling in America

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    **A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History"The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick**The epic history of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Furious Sky

    The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    Washington Post • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020Finalist • Kirkus Prize for NonfictionKirkus Reviews • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020Library Journal • Best Science & Technology Books of 2020Booklist • 10 Top Sci-Tech Books of 2020New York Times Book Review • Editor's ChoiceWith A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself ... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Black Flags, Blue Waters

    The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle).Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

    The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan AwardWinner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place"A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." —Los Angeles TimesAs Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Rebels at Sea

    Privateering in the American Revolution

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    **Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureWinner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book AwardA Massachusetts Center for the Book "Must-Read"Finalist for the New England Society Book AwardFinalist for the Boston Authors Club Julia Ward Howe Book AwardSamuel Eliot Morison Book Award for Naval LiteratureNational Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) Excellence in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Brilliant Beacons

    A History of the American Lighthouse

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    "What Moby-Dick is to whales, Brilliant Beacons is to lighthouses—a transformative account of a familiar yet mystical subject." —Laurence Bergreen, author of Columbus: The Four VoyagesIn this "magnificent compendium" (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing "illuminate[s] the history of America itself" ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • When America First Met China

    An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    Ancient China collides with newfangled America in this epic tale of opium smugglers, sea pirates, and dueling clipper ships.Brilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    The Wreck of the Mentor

    A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    Narrated by L.J. Ganser ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 10 min

    New York Times • “The Nonfiction Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026”An astonishing true story—one of the most gripping maritime sagas of the nineteenth century—told by our era’s “expert literary steersman” (Washington Post).From the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a r... ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Black Flags, Blue Waters

    The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    Narrated by Paul Brion ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age"—spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s—when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. Bestselling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Leviathan

    The History of Whaling in America

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    Narrated by James Boles ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 57 min

    This is the epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales."To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook