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Chesapeake Paperback - 1986

by Michener, James A

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Fawcett, 1986 Soft cover. Good.
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  • Title Chesapeake
  • Author Michener, James A
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 1024
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fawcett, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
  • Date 1986
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BO6-11
  • ISBN 9780449211588 / 0449211584
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.94 x 4.23 x 1.42 in (17.63 x 10.74 x 3.61 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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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.

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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 is enthusiastically passed from friend to friend.”—Associated Press

About the author

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."