Join us at Barnes & Noble Atlantic Avenue as we welcome Eric Jay Dolin to celebrate the release of The Wreck of the Mentor! Eric will be joined in conversation by Jessica DuLong.

About The Wreck of the Mentor

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 remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewman face not only the miseries of shipwreck in the unfamiliar territory but also the profound uncertainty of contact with the Indigenous people of the Micronesian archipelago of Palau, who within days approach the deserted men brandishing axes, clubs, and spears. In this gripping sage of cultural collision, tribal wars, and dashed hopes, award-winning historian Eric Jay Dolin vividly reconstructs the Mentor's doomed voyage, the years of perilous captivity, and the delicate negotiations and fraught naval rescue mission that followed.

Illustrated by more than 100 images and maps, The Wreck of the Mentor 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.

About Eric Jay Dolin

Eric Jay Dolin is the best-selling and award-winning author of numerous works in maritime history, including Leviathan, Rebels at Sea, and Black Flags, Blue Waters. A graduate of Brown, Yale, and MIT, he lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts.

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