01592cam a2200325 4500 1261916676 TxAuBib 780223s1978||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 78002892 9780394500799 0394500792 9780394502021 lim. ed. 0394502027 lim. ed. 9780394503127 deluxe ed. 0394503120 deluxe ed. 9780812970432 pbk. 0812970438 pbk. (OCoLC)5442 DLC eng DLC WCM BAKER NLGGC XZH XY4 BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG OCLCQ TXBXL OCLCO GBVCP OCLCF TxAuBib Michener, James A, 1907-1997, (James Albert.) Chesapeake / James A. Michener. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 1978. x, 865 p. ; 22 cm. 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. Also issued online. Eastern Shore (Md. and Va) Fiction. Eastern Shore (Md. and Va) Fiction. Historical fiction.