Chesapeake
a novel
by James A. Michener
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The four-hundred-year saga of America's Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the present. The central scene of Michener's historical novel is that section of Maryland's Eastern shore, hardly more than 10 miles square. To this point come the founders of families that will dominate the story. A panoramic narrative of human and animal life on Maryland's Eastern Shore focuses on a ten-square-mile area at the mouth of the Choptank River and the families that settle there, from 1583 to the present.
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Fiction in English, Fiction, Native American Roots, 400 Year Saga, Western stories, History, Eastern Shore (Md. and Va), Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.), Historical fiction, Fiction, historical, Maryland, fiction, Virginia, fiction, Fiction, historical, generalPlaces
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Chesapeake: a novel
2003, Random House Trade Paperbacks
in English
- Random House trade pbk. ed.
0812970438 9780812970432
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James A. Michener's enthralling new novel tells a magnificent historical saga of our land and its people, focusing on the generations of seven brawling, burgeoning families—their failures and triumphs, their uniquely American spirit and drive—living on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake is the first work of fiction in ten years to make its debut on The New York Times Best Seller List as number one. Read this panoramic novel, and you will see why critics and readers agree that it is Michener's finest work to date.
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