A Furious Sky
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year battle with the fury of hurricanes.
Eric Jay Dolin Books
This author crafts dramatic, wondrous, and often tragic tales exploring themes of people, commerce, maritime history, and the environment. With a goal to entertain and inform, each book leaves readers feeling enriched by the experience. His distinctive narrative style plunges into fascinating historical subjects, offering a captivating journey through compelling aspects of the past. The author's unique approach makes history come alive, resonating deeply with contemporary audiences.
The narrative explores Boston Harbor's dual role as a vital colonial gateway and a historical sewage crisis. It chronicles the harbor's evolution from a bustling center of trade and pivotal events like the Boston Tea Party to a polluted environment that challenged the community's growth. Through this lens, the book highlights the city's transformation and the ongoing struggle to manage its waste, reflecting broader themes of urban development and environmental responsibility.
The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters (ISBN 978 1 63149 622 6) reclaims the daring freelance sailors who proved essential to the winning of the Revolutionary War
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 the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond. “Deftly blending scholarship and drama” (Richard Zacks), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin illustrates how American colonists at first supported these outrageous pirates in an early display of solidarity against the Crown, and then violently opposed them. Through engrossing episodes of roguish glamour and extreme brutality, Dolin depicts the star pirates of this period, among them the towering Blackbeard, the ill-fated Captain Kidd, and sadistic Edward Low, who delighted in torturing his prey. Upending popular misconceptions and cartoonish stereotypes, Black Flags, Blue Waters is a “tour de force history” (Michael Pierce, Midwestern Rewind) of the seafaring outlaws whose raids reflect the precarious nature of American colonial life.
