WEATHER MAN
Most people cannot barrel on “a bone-jarring, terrifying, and at times, no doubt, exhilarating trip over the waves,” tethered to a whale the size of a stretch limo. Nor are they able to encounter cresting 30- to 50-foot waves of the most devastating hurricane to slam New England in 1938. Neither can they interlope over the shoulders of 18th-century pirate Edward Thatch (a.k.a. Blackbeard), terrorizing his quarry before plundering their vessels and seizing their valuable cargo.
But, seated in his home office in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Eric Jay Dolin can—and does—recreate in his imagination such moments in history, then crisply sets them into words that engage, inform, and entertain in the pages of books, much to
