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A new year is a fresh start, but while winter keeps us tucked away, here are some great books to explore as you relax in solitary comfort, or to share with a loved one for the holidays.
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FUR FORTUNE & EMPIRE by Eric Jay Dolin Norton $29.95 hardcover
ATLANTIC by Simon Winchester Harper Collins $27.99 hardcover
As Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. But in the Indians clad in deer skins and “good furs,” Hudson had discovered something just as tantalizing. His 1609 voyage ignited a fierce competition to lay claim to this uncharted continent’s, untapped natural resources. The result was the creation of an American fur trade, which fostered economic rivalries and fueled wars among the European powers, as North America became a battleground for imperial aspirations. To the rallying cry “get the furs while they last,” beavers, sea otters, and buffalos were slaughtered, their precious pelts tailored into extravagant hats, coats, and sleigh blankets. In Fur, Fortune, and Empire we see how North America was explored, exploited, and settled, while its native Indians were alternately enriched and exploited. Fur, Fortune, and Empire is an epic history that brings to vivid life three hundred years of the American experience. 16 pages of color and 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations.
Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the New York Times bestselling author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind’s intellectual evolution. After the first daring mariners— whether it was the Vikings, the Irish, the Chinese, Christopher Columbus in the north, or the Portuguese and the Spanish in the south—the Atlantic evolved in the world’s growing consciousness of itself as an enclosed body of water bounded by the Americas, Europe and Africa. Atlantic is a biography of this immense sea which has defined and determined much about the lives of those who live near its tens of thousands of miles of coast. The Atlantic has been friend and foe to explorers, scientists and warriors, and it continues to affect our character and dreams. Simon Winchester chronicles that relationship; from the earth’s geological origins to the age of exploration, World War II battles to modern pollution, his narrative is epic and awe-inspiring.
December 2010 / The South Coast Insider