Chesapeake

Author(s): James A. Michener

Fiction

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 the early seventeenth century to the present day. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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"Another of James Michener's 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" "Michener's most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope."--"The Philadelphia Inquirer" "Magnificently written . . . one of those rare novels that are enthusiastically passed from friend to friend."--Associated Press

James A. Michener was one of the world's most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Tales of the South Pacific, "the bestselling novels "The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, "and "Caravans, "and the memoir "The World Is My Home." Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.

General Fields

  • : 9780812970432
  • : Random House, Incorporated
  • : Random House, Incorporated
  • : 0.63
  • : March 2004
  • : 202mm X 134mm X 37mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : James A. Michener
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : 880