num_pages: 1024
description: Once 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.
language: English
title: Chesapeake
titlecomplete: Chesapeake
genres: American, Historical, Historical Fiction, Novels, Literature, American History, Classics, Epic, Adventure, Fiction
ratings_count: 25122
places: Virginia, Maryland, The United States of America
publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback