The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
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Rippling across time, this is the true story of one of history’s greatest shipwrecks. With gripping detail, Eric Jay Dolin captures the danger, the difficult choices, the daring rescue mission and the path forward.
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 ofBlack Flags, Blue Waterscomes the story of the American whaleshipMentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven surviving crewmen face not only the miseries of shipwreck in unfamiliar...























