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The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

By Eric Jay Dolin
Hardcover
$27.99
By Eric Jay Dolin
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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.

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“An exciting and at times almost unbelievably dramatic story.” —Michael O’Donnell, Wall Street Journal

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An astonishing true story—one of the most gripping maritime saga...

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