Lecture by Eric Jay Dolin: Wreck of The Mentor
Join the New Bedford Port Society for an evening with acclaimed maritime historian and New York Times Bestselling Author Eric Jay Dolin, author of Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, as he discusses his newest book, The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail. The story begins in New Bedford in 1832, when the American whaleship Mentor set out on a voyage that would end in a dramatic shipwreck in the western Pacific. What followed was a remarkable story of survival, captivity, cultural encounters, and rescue. Dolin will share the fascinating history behind the voyage, the people aboard the Mentor, and the broader world of the nineteenth-century whaling industry and Age of Sail. The evening will offer a unique opportunity to explore a remarkable chapter of New Bedford’s maritime past in the historic Seamen’s Bethel.