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," Herm...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Eric Jay Dolin.
As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled rout...
Getting a Ph.D. is an intellectually exciting experience. It can also be very painful. Roughly 40,000 doctoral students graduate each year in the United States. Most of them bea...
When America First Met China
Eric Jay Dolin · ISBN 9780871404336
Julkaistu 2012 Kieli englanti sidottu
Eric Jay Dolin traces America's fraught relationship with China back to the unforgiving nineteenth-century seas that separated a brash, rising naval power from a battered ancien...
Set against the backdrop of an expanding nation, Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system from its earliest days, highlighting the political, milita...
When America First Met China
Eric Jay Dolin · ISBN 9780871406897
Julkaistu 2013 Kieli englanti nidottu
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 roo...
The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig and a British warship in t...
The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the American Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of the country’s first war is the r...
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 Amer...
Boston Harbor served as a colonial gateway to the world, witnessed the Boston Tea Party, and helped the community transform itself from an outpost of a few hardy settlers into a...
In 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 h...
Hurricanes menace North America from June through to November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the plane...
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 t...
The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the American Revolution has been told before, yet missing from most maritime histories of the country’s first war is the r...
Hurricanes menace North America from June through to November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely become more intense as the plane...
From the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies...
Jug-a-ro-mack-a-la-lulu-e-quack-a-la-lulu-e-zack-a-la-lulu-o-pippin and the bullies of Badgersville
Eric Jay · ISBN 9781449980580
Julkaistu 2011 Kieli englanti nidottu
In this comic historical novel, a passionate, young American flees a tough economy for the Peace Corps. Living in Tunisia in the period between the Vietnam War and the age of Is...
One unorthodox premise of Self-Helpless, the fourth book of essays by Eric Jay Sonnenschein, is that self-help books are written by the wrong people, experts who claim to have a...
ROCKED AND ROLLED Trevor Lipps is a prolific, young writer who becomes inspired to writea song while traveling abroad. As one song grows into a catalog of several, Trevor receiv...