Eric Jay Dolin, Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
09/16/2010 7:00 pm
"Nobody
writes about the link between American history and natural history with
the scholarly grace of Eric Jay Dolin. [This book] is a landmark study
filled with a cast of eccentric western-type characters. Not since the
days of Francis Parkman has a historian analyzed the fur-trade industry
with such brilliance." Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
"Eric
Jay Dolin’s brilliant account of our nation’s fur trade is the best
popular history ever written about one of America’s most fascinating
businesses...Here is the pageant of America writ large!" James A. Hanson, chief historian, Museum of the Fur Trade
Eric Jay Dolin’sLeviathan: The History of Whaling in America was
choosen by the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe as one of the best
books of the year. A frequent lecturer, Dolin lives in Marbelhead,
Massachusetts.
