Chesapeake
Language: English
Action & Adventure Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) Fiction Fiction - Historical General General & Literary Fiction Historical Historical - General Historical fiction History Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Modern fiction Romance action
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: Apr 12, 1986
Description:
SUMMARY: "Michener's most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER"Brilliantly written."ASSOCIATED PRESSOnce again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of America's great bay and its Eastern Shore. Following Edmund Steed and his remarkable family, who parallel the settling and forming of the nation, CHESAPEAKE sweeps readers from the unspoiled world of the Native Americans to the voyages of Captain John Smith, the Revolutionary War, and right up to modern times.