[SEMCO] CCMNH Eric Jay Dolin's new book, Fur, Fortune and Empire:The History of the Fur Trade in America

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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster
Presents
Eric Jay Dolin
On
Fur, Fortune and Empire
Thursday, September 23   7:30 pm

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 23, 2010
Contact: Julie O'Neil 508-896-3867 or adminsupport at ccmnh.org
<mailto:adminsupprt at ccmnh.org> 
 

On Thursday, September 23 at 7:30 pm the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
will present Eric Jay Dolin, speaking on his new book Fur, Fortune and
Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America.  The fee is $5/Member
and $7/Non-Member.
 
Following up on his stimulating talk last year at the Museum on his book
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, 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.
 
 "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."- 
Ric Burns, documentary filmmaker.  
 
 A booksigning will follow.

   

            For further information, contact the Museum at 508-896-3867 or
go on our web site www.ccmnh.org <http://www.ccmnh.org/> 

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