This 1978 James Michener novel details the history of Maryland's eastern shore
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Chesapeake (novel) - Wikipedia  Chesapeake is a novel by James A. Michener, published by Random House in 1978. The story deals with several families living in the Chesapeake Bay area, from 1583 to 1978. Contents. [hide]. 1 Plot summary; 2 Themes and motifs; 3 Allusions/references to actual history ... Most of the events of the novel take place on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,...
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Chesapeake by James A. Michener  Reviews, Discussion ...  Once again James A. Michener brings history to life with this 400-year saga of ..... history of the North American east, mainly Maryland's Eastern Shore, where the ... are an interesting choice, considering the nearly insignificant details that are ..... this best-seller from 1978 to be very much like the other two Michener novels...
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Devon Island Michener | Michener's 'Chesapeake' revisited Novel ...  Oct 24, 1997 ... ... a revisit to "Chesapeake," the 1978 novel of 859 pages by James A. Michener, who ... with excellent microfilm records and a library strong in the history and ... It would charm people from all over the world who had never heard of crabs, or Maryland, or Chesapeake Bay.) ... Eastern Shore landmark for sale
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Chesapeake: James A. Michener: 9780394500799: Amazon.com ...  Chesapeake [James A. Michener] on Amazon.com. ... The central scene of Michener's historical novel is that section of Maryland's Eastern shore, hardly more than 10 miles square. ... Chesapeake Hardcover  June 12, 1978 .... Product Details.
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Chesapeake - James Albert Michener - Google Books  The four-hundred-year saga of America's Eastern Shore, from its Native ... Michener's historical novel is that section of Maryland's Eastern shore, hardly ... Random House, 1978 - Fiction - 865 pages ... What people are saying - Write a review...
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The Red Rover by James Fenimore Cooper  Reviews, Discussion ...  "The Red Rover" is most completely a book of the sea -- as much so as "The Mohicans" is a ..... James Fenimore Cooper was a popular and prolific American writer. He is best known for his historical novel The Last of the Mohicans, one of the...
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Montgomery County | Encyclopedia of Alabama  Feb 12, 2015 ... Scott and his companions then built a new town they called East ... of East Alabama contemptuously referred to New Philadelphia as ... The bitter rivalry ended, however, when the towns merged on December 3, 1819, and incorporated as ... Technological firsts were also achieved in Montgomery County.
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James McHenry | U.S. Founding Father | ConstitutionDay.com  Founding Father James McHenry from the State of Maryland is a signer to the U.S. ... Fort McHenry was named after him, and it was the bombardment of this ... At Dublin, received a classical education, and later became a poetry writer. In 1771...
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The Red Rover - Wikipedia  The Red Rover is a novel by American writer James Fenimore Cooper. It was originally ... introducing a white man to the wilderness, like The Last of the Mohicans. ... Cooper is one of the authors credited with helping pioneer the sea novel...
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The Last of the Mohicans - Wikipedia  The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826) is a historical novel by James Fenimore .... Heyward becomes suspicious of Magua, and Hawk-eye and the Mohicans ... In a fight at the edge of a cliff, Cora, Uncas, and Magua are killed. ... the son of Chingachgook and the eponymous "Last of the Mohicans" (meaning the...
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County History | Anne Arundel County, MD  Seventeen years earlier, King Charles I signed the Charter of Maryland granting the colony to Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. Cecil Calvert and his...
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The Star-Democrat from Easton, Maryland  Page 6 - Newspapers.com  Aug 7, 1991 ... Schaefer was pressed by reporters on the wetlands subject after he spoke ... Reasoner left CBS in 1970 to co-anchor "The ABC Evening News" with ... the first "60 Minutes" co-editor with Mike from page la late September to ... His first and only novel, "Tell Me About Women," was published in 1946 and was...
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County History | Anne Arundel County, MD  The first European settlers arrived in present-day Anne Arundel County in 1649. ... the Charter of Maryland granting the colony to Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. ... General Assembly created Anne Arundel County and named it after her. ... In 1695 the town was renamed "Annapolis" in honor of then Princess Anne...
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General Information - University of Maryland Eastern Shore  Situated in the historic town of Princess Anne, the University of Maryland Eastern ... The international elements of the UMES campus are evidenced by the flags of over 50 ... faculty, UMES has developed an academic program perhaps more...
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American Ideals: Selected Patriotic Readings for Seventh and ...  Her deck, once red with heroes... ... Page 117 - Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore, Just as the moon rose over the bay. Where ... Title, American Ideals: Selected Patriotic Readings for Seventh and Eighth Grades and Junior High Schools.
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The Book that Made Glens Falls Famous: An Introduction to James ...  Nor did he know that he was about to inspire the novel that would make the Cave, and Glens Falls, famous -- James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans. ... After a childhood spent among the woods and hills of Otsego, he had gone on to ... frontier village of Cooperstown in which young Cooper had grown up.
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James Fenimore Cooper < Authors < Literature 1991 < American ...  James Fenimore Cooper, like Irving, evoked a sense of the past and gave it a local ... Cooper's novels portray the successive waves of the frontier settlement: the...
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James Michener | Biography, Books and Facts - Famous Authors  James Michener Biography - James A. Michener was a prominent nineteenth century writer, who had penned over forty books in his lifetime. His works involve...
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James A. Michener - Wikipedia  James Albert Michener was an American author of more than 40 books, the majority of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history. ... Michener's novels include Tales of the South Pacific for which he won the Pulitzer Prize...
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Centennial: A Novel: James A. Michener, Steve Berry ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. From Library Journal. A runaway best seller, Michener's Centennial was ... Los Angeles Times ... And if you're not a Michener fan, Centennial will make you one. ... The book's 900 pages cover 136 million years. .... I can only say that if one loves the history and drama of the American West ..... Movies, TV
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Books|James Michener, Author of Novels That Sweep Through the ...  Oct 17, 1997 ... Author James Michener Dies at age 90; photo (M) ... during World War II, was his first published fiction and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. ... As of late 1992, he was one of only eight authors who had written six or more No.