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Chesapeake

Chesapeake

Author(s): James A Michener

Location(s): Maryland

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 16th Century onwards

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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.

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This book is special for its description of Maryland in its earliest form, just wonderful – Elsie Grainger –

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