Title: Bahía de Chesapeake
First published: 1980
Description: 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.
Subjects: 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, general
Places: Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.), Maryland