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Encyclopedia > Chesapeake (novel)

Chesapeake is a novel by James A. Michener, published by Random House in 1978. The story details with several families living in the Chesapeake Bay area, from 1583 to 1978. James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907? - October 16, 1997) was the American author of such books as Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas and Poland. ... Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, which acquired it in 1998. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...


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