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Join Pelagic for a Book Talk with Eric Dolin: Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Eric Jay Dolin is the author of fifteen books, including Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, which was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books of 2007 by the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe, and also won the 2007 John Lyman Award for U.S. Maritime History. His most recent book before Rebels at Sea is A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes, which was a Kirkus Prize finalist, and chosen as one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Booklist, Library Journal, and the editors at Amazon. It was also selected as a "Must Read" book by the Massachusetts Center for the Book for 2021. Prior to A Furious Sky, he published Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates, which was chosen as a "Must Read" book for 2019 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and was a finalist for the 2019 Julia Ward Howe Award given by the Boston Author's Club. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, where he received his PhD in environmental policy, Dolin lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his family. 

This event will be offered both in-person at Savin Hill Yacht Club and virtually on Zoom. (Please choose one when you register.) 

 In-person attendees: Doors open at 6:30 pm. Please proceed to 2nd floor. There will be pizza and a cash bar.

Virtual attendees: The Zoom link is in the confirmation email for your registration. (Please check your SPAM folder!)

This event is free and open to the public.