Chesapeake
Subtitle: a novel
By: James A. Michener.
Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 865
Subjects: Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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.