Chesapeake

✍ Scribed by James A. Michener

• Publisher: Ballantine Books;Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 1978;2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 762 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of Americas Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one mans dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom.

**Praise for *Chesapeake Another of James Micheners great mines of narrative, character and lore.*The Wall Street Journal

[A] marvelous panorama of history seen in the lives of symbolic people of the ages . . . An emotionally and intellectually appealing book.***The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Micheners most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope.*The Philadelphia Inquirer

Magnificently written . . . one of those rare novels that is enthusiastically passed from friend to friend.Associated Press

From the Paperback edition.

Review

Another of James Micheners great mines of narrative, character and lore.***The Wall Street Journal [A] marvelous panorama of history seen in the lives of symbolic people of the ages . . . An emotionally and intellectually appealing book.*The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Micheners most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope.*The Philadelphia Inquirer*

Magnificently written . . . one of those rare novels that is enthusiastically passed from friend to friend.*Associated Press*

From the Inside Flap

One of James A. Michener's grandest most loved, #1 best-selling works: the huge, enthralling novel, set amid the natural and historic riches of the Chesapeake, which dramatically brings to life -- through almost four centuries -- our land, our history, our people.