Author Talk: Eric Jay Dolin

In partnership with the Book Shop of Beverly Farms, join us as we welcome Eric Jay Dolin to talk about his new book, The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail, the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. It is at once a powerful story of survival and a revealing window into the great Age of Sail a time when maritime ambition collided with local sovereignty, and when the outcome of one voyage rippled across oceans and empires.

Eric Jay Dolin is the best-selling author of numerous works in maritime history, including Left for Dead, Black Flags, Blue Waters, and Leviathan. His books have won many awards including the John Lyman Award for U.S. Maritime History; Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award; National Society Daughters of the American Revolution Excellence in American History Book Award; and the Samuel Eliot Morison Book Award for Naval Literature; and he was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. He now lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family.

Books will be available for purchase.