Press Coverage
Fur, Fortune, and Empire- (10.06.11) Idaho Yesterdays
Fur, Fortune, and Empire review
- (07.06.11) OWAA
Fur wins Outdoor Writer's Association of America Book Award, 2011
- (06.06.11) Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association
Finalist, Reading the West Book Award, 2011
- (05.25.11) CBC Radio, Ideas
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (05.25.11) Moir's Environmental Dialogues
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
- (03.11.11) National Post (Canada)
A Fight for Fur, A Fight for Land
- (03.10.11) Financial Post (Canada)
Cowboys in Canoes
- (03.09.11) National Post (Canada)
An Economic Revolution, Draped in Fur
- (03.08.11) National Post (Canada)
Built to Gnaw
- (03.07.11) National Post (Canada)
Our First Export
- (12.31.10) Reading Eagle
Trappers had their role in formation of America
- (12.27.10) American Thinker
Fannie, Freddie, and Fur
- (12.24.10) BBC History Magazine
Fur, Fortune, and Empire Review
- (12.19.10) Seattle Times
Best Books of 2010
- (12.17.10) Dave Richey Outdoors
Christmas Book Reviews
- (12.17.10) Rocky Mountain Land Library
Rocky Mountain Land Library's Top Ten Books of 2010
- (12.07.10) New West
New West Best Books in the West
- (12.02.10) GateHouse News Service, syndicated column, by Rae Francoeur
Book Notes: "Fur, Fortune, and Empire"
- (12.01.10) St. Louis Magazine
Fur and Fortune
- (11.29.10) Pittsburgh Quarterly (Winter Issue)
Reading Room: Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (10.22.10) Audubon Magazine
Fur, Love, and Money
- (10.18.10) Northern Wilds, the Outdoor Newspaper of the North
Fur, Fortune, and Empire Review
- (10.15.10) Summit Daily News (CO)
History of Fur & Fortune Revealed
- (10.15.10) The Times Union (Albany)
Read up on your favorite outdoors topic
- (10.13.10) Moir's Environmental Dialogues, plus personal account on becoming an environmental policy expert
Natural History of the American Fur Industry
- (10.08.10) The Winchester Star
Winchester Library: Questions for Author Eric Jay Dolin
- (10.01.10) Library Journal
The Reader's Shelf: Learning for Pleasure: Narrative Nonfiction's Appeal
- (10.01.10) The Independent (UK)
Perfect skins: How the fur trade shaped the future of the USA
- (09.26.10) The Washington Post
Review of "Fur, Fortune, and Empire"
- (09.17.10) WYPR (Baltimore NPR)
Midday With Dan Rodricks
- (08.25.10) Technology Review
The Hunt For Meaning, Telling the Story of the Fur Trade
- (08.22.10) The Providence Journal
Fur Trade Made America Great
- (08.21.10) The Page 99 Test
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (08.19.10) Steve Goddard's History Wire
Book Alert / Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (08.19.10) Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
So Much History Revolves Around the Fur Trade
- (08.16.10) The Internet Review of Books
Bad Days for Beavers
- (08.13.10) The Dallas Morning News
Book Review, Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (08.12.10) Raido West, KUER, NPR, 90.1, Utah
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (08.10.10) WAMC, Northeast Public Radio
Book Picks
- (08.02.10) Richmond Times-Dispatch
Nonfiction Review: Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (07.28.10) C-Span Book TV appearance
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (07.28.10) Weekday with Steve Scher, on KUOW 94.9 FM
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (07.25.10) The Boston Globe
How the fur trade helped shape America
- (07.25.10) The Seatlle Times
'Fur, Fortune and Empire': How the fur trade drove the exploration of America
- (07.24.10) The Oregonian
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (07.23.10) Los Angeles Times
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (07.23.10) The Wall Street Journal
Best-Selling Books week ended July 18, Spotlight History
- (07.20.10) The Frugal Yankee, Radio
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (07.20.10) WBUR -- On Point, with Tom Ashbrook
America's Frontier Fur Rush
- (07.19.10) BarnesandNoble.com
Fur, Fortune, and Empire
- (07.19.10) New West
Beaver Tale: Eric Jay Dolin on the Fur Industry's Role in Western Settlement
- (07.16.10) Bloomberg News
When Kit Carson Shot Drunk Bully to Win the Lovely Arapaho: Lewis Lapham
- (07.16.10) Bloomberg News, Lapham's Quarterly
Dolin on Lapham's Quarterly
- (07.10.10) The Wall Street Journal
The Riches Came Pelting Down
- (07.07.10) The Marblehead Reporter
Full-time Marblehead Author, Dolin explores pelt trade in follow-up to acclaimed 'Leviathan'
- (07.04.10) BookPage
Empire Built on Beaver Pelts
- (06.25.10) The Cape Cod Times
Four Books for History Lovers
- (06.07.10) Los Angeles Times
Summer reading: 60 titles for 92 days
- (06.03.10) American Booksellers Association
The July Indie Next List & Notables Preview
- (05.30.10) The Hartford Courant
New Nonfiction with Connecticut Ties
- (05.24.10) The Maine Sportsman
Book Corner, Ken Allen
- (05.16.10) Kirkus Reviews
Starred Review
- (05.15.10) Publishers Weekly
Starred Review
- (01.10.10) The Boston Globe
Notable 'Voices'
- (01.07.10) Library Journal
Prepub Exploded, June/July 2010
Leviathan- (09.20.10) WRKO Radio, AM680
Pundit Review, with Kevin Whalen
- (08.03.08) The New York Times
They Used to Say Whale Oil was Indispensable, Too
- (08.03.08) The New York Times Book Review
Paperback Row
- (07.19.08) The Boston Globe
He's got a whale of a tale to tell
- (07.17.08) WGBH, 90.9, NPR
The Point, with Mindy Todd
- (07.13.08) Concord Monitor
On My Nightstand
- (05.28.08) Bloomberg News
Grenade-Tipped Harpoons Gore Whales, Expose Hypocrisy: Books
- (01.15.08) The Patriot Ledger
Author of award-winning whaling book to speak at South Shore Natural Science Center
- (01.06.08) Commonwealth Journal, WUMB Radio
Leviathan (Audio interview)
- (01.01.08) KPCC Radio, 89.3 FM, AirTalk with Larry Mantle (Southern CA NPR)
Leviathan (Audio interview)
- (12.11.07) WICN radio, 90.5 FM
Dolin interviewed by Mark Lynch on INQUIRY
- (12.05.07) NECN TV's Good Morning Live
Leviathan one of the Frugal Yankee's gift ideas for the holidays
- (11.21.07) The Spectator (UK)
Inscrutable lords of the deep (book review)
- (10.31.07) Gloucester Daily Times
Author studied herring by day, and wrote about whales at night
- (10.30.07) WNYC Radio (NPR), The Leonard Lopate Show
The History of Whaling in America
- (10.18.07) The Barnstable Patriot
Leviathan: A History of Whaling In America (book review)
- (10.11.07) The Boston Globe
From Whale Oil and Beyond (op ed by Dolin, reprinted in the International Herald Tribune)
- (10.01.07) Brown Alumni Monthly
Into Ye Deep
- (09.25.07) Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror
Whale of a Tale
- (09.24.07) WBUR, 90.9, NPR
On Point with Tom Ashbrook, Leviathan: A Whaling History
- (09.19.07) WGBH, 90.9, NPR
The Point, with Mindy Todd
- (09.16.07) Charleston Post and Courier
Leviathan: A Whale of a History Lesson
- (09.07.07) A Nation Built on Blubber
The Daily Yomiuri (Japan's largest English-language newspaper)
- (09.07.07) The East Hampton Star
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
- (08.23.07) The Hipster Book Club
Review: Leviathan
- (08.22.07) Salon.com
America's Great White Hope
- (08.14.07) The Boston Globe
Move over, sacred cod (op ed by Dolin)
- (08.12.07) The Frugal Yankee Radio Show
Whaling in America
- (08.12.07) The Providence Journal
Hunt for whales has always been an enormous endeavor
- (08.07.07) Greater Boston with Emily Rooney
Book Loft (Television interview, Channel 2, WGBH)
- (08.05.07) The New York Times Sunday Book Review
Editor's Choice
- (08.01.07) New England Cable News
A History of Whaling in New England
- (07.30.07) Historic Nantucket
A thoughtful history of whaling in America (
.pdf 5MB download)
- (07.29.07) The New York Times Sunday Book Review
In the Shadow of Moby-Dick
- (07.26.07) NPR
Beyond 'Moby-Dick,' NPR's Marketplace, with Kai Ryssdal
- (07.23.07) The New Yorker
There She Blew, The History of American Whaling
- (07.22.07) San Diego Union-Tribune
Thar she blows!
- (07.20.07) New Hampshire Public Radio, The Exchange
Leviathan (Audio interview)
- (07.20.07) The New York Times
Beyond Moby-Dick: When America Went A-Fishing for The Whale
- (07.19.07) Joey Reynolds Show, WOR Radio 710
Leviathan (Audio interview)
- (07.19.07) Martha's Vineyard Times
History of whaling is an American story, in which Vineyard figures modestly
- (07.19.07) Wisconsin Public Radio, At Issue with Ben Merens
Leviathan (Audio interview)
- (07.17.07) Afternoon Magazine on WILL-AM (Illinois NPR)
Leviathan (Audio interview)
- (07.15.07) The Standard Times
Leviathan is valuable addition to whaling history canon
- (07.13.07) Entertainment Weekly
Leviathan
- (07.12.07) The Salem News
Whale author casts off day job to pursue writing career
- (07.08.07) Los Angeles Times
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, by Eric Jay Dolin
- (07.08.07) Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
A History of Whaling
- (07.06.07) The Boston Globe
A Glimpse Into Whaling History (op ed by Dolin, reprinted in the International Herald Tribune)
- (07.02.07) WBUR, 90.9 ("Boston's NPR News Source")
Leviathan, A Whale of a Tale
- (07.01.07) Quarterdeck
Down to the Sea in Ships . . .
- (07.01.07) The Boston Globe
Into the Deep
- (06.30.07) The Boston Globe
Thinking big
- (06.30.07) The Boston Globe
Thinking big (Audio, Dolin reads from Leviathan)
- (06.27.07) The New York Sun
A Whale of a Tale
- (06.20.07) The Wall Street Journal
The Harpooner's Harvest
- (06.15.07) Los Angeles Times
Summer Reading -- Books To Dive Into This Summer
- (06.15.07) Minneapolis-St. Pau Star Tribune
Thar She bloweth
- (06.11.07) Washington Technology
History and a whale of a story; Last Byte | A conversation with whaling historian Eric Jay Dolin