Eric Jay Dolin is the author of and A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes (2020), Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates (2018), Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse (2016), When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail (2016), Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America (2012), Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America (2010), and more.