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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>The </span></font></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Cape Cod</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>
</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Museum</span></b><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'> of Natural History in Brewster<br>
Presents<br>
Eric Jay Dolin<br>
On<br>
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Fur, Fortune and Empire<br>
</span></i>Thursday, September 23 </span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>7:30 pm</span></b></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: </span></font></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>August
23, 2010</span></b><b><span style='font-weight:bold'><br>
Contact: Julie O’Neil 508-896-3867 or <a
href="mailto:adminsupprt@ccmnh.org">adminsupport@ccmnh.org</a><br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Thursday, September 23 at </span></font>7:30 pm the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will present Eric Jay Dolin, speaking on his new book
<i><span style='font-style:italic'>Fur, Fortune and Empire: The Epic History of
the Fur Trade in </span></i><i><span style='font-style:italic'>America</span></i><i><span
style='font-style:italic'>.</span></i> The fee is $5/Member and
$7/Non-Member.<br>
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Following up on his stimulating talk last year at the Museum on his book <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America</span></i>,
Eric Jay Dolin will describe the pivotal role played by the fur trade in
imperial expansion, Native American existence and its effect on entire species.<br>
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“Focusing on the three-century chase for wealth in fur, this
lively, balanced, and carefully researched account evokes an epic clash of
empires from one end of the continent to the other. The book charts the rise
and expansion of the American republic on the back of fur-bearing mammals and
chronicles, along the way, a rogues’ gallery of astonishingly vivid
characters, from Henry Hudson himself and John Jacob Astor, down through Jedediah
Smith, Joseph Walker, and Kit Carson. A wonderful and timely rendering of a
heedless and bloody minded age.”­ <br>
Ric Burns, documentary filmmaker. <br>
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A booksigning will follow.</p>
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further information, contact the Museum at 508-896-3867 or go on our web site <a
href="http://www.ccmnh.org/">www.ccmnh.org</a></span></font></p>
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