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Author Will Speak on Early US/China Trade
Eric Jay Dolin, author of When America First Met China, will talk about his book at 7 p.m. Monday at the Swampscott Public Library, 61 Burrill St.
Eric Jay Dolin, award winning local historian, and author of Leviathan: the History of Whaling in America, will be speaking at Swampscott Public Library on Monday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m., about his latest book, When America First Met China.
Called a Top Ten Book Pick for Fall by Kirkus Reviews, When America First Met China explores the complex and fascinating history of our relationship with the world's second largest economy.
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The work features opium smugglers, pirates and clipper ships built for speed.
Signed copies of his book will be available.
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The author and his wife and their two children live in Marblehead.
Eric has held various jobs, several related to the ocean and shore as well as environmental policy, according to the author's website.
The site says he was "a fisheries policy analyst at the National Marine Fisheries Service, a program manager at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, an environmental consultant stateside and in London, an American Association for the Advancement of Science writing fellow at Business Week, a curatorial assistant in the Mollusk Department at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and an intern at the National Wildlife Federation, the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, and the U.S. Senate."
