Chesapeake

CHESAPEAKE is a magnificent saga of our land and its people, focusing on the generations of seven brawling, burgeoning families -- their failures and triumphs, their uniquely American spirit and drive -- living on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay.Beginning with Indian villages of the 16th century and continuing on to the late 1970s, Michener evokes the waves of humanity that flowed through the area. Always he keeps the land in view, and always the relentless sea.