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Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of Americas Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one mans dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.
Praise for Chesapeake
Another of James Micheners 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
Micheners 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.… (más)
No se si es la traducción o que, pero estos libros cuando los leo me parecen perimidos, y mal escritos. trataré de leer la versión original la proxima vez ( )
Novela epica que describe la población del territorio norteamericano, en una saga de familias a lo largo de los siglos. Cada capitulo comienza con un viaje que provee la base para la trama de cada capitulo . I Comienzaen 1583 con las guerras entre tribus indias americanas , luego relata la llegada de los conquistadores ingleses en el siglo XVII, luego el periodo de de esclavitud , los ataques piratas, la Revolución de Independencia y la Guerra Civil , abarca grandes eventos del siglo XX como el caso Watergate para terminar el relato hisórico en 1978. Una brillante versión novelada de la formación de Estados Unidos.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To Mari Michener who cared for the geese, the herons, the ospreys and the cardinals
Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
For some time now they had been suspicious of him.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
But a family rises or falls primarily because of the way it marshals its genetic inheritance and puts it to constructive use.
His horrible mistake had been to abandon the land which had nurtured him; men are not obligated to cling forever to the piece of land that bore them, but they had better pay attention to the principles they derived from it.
“A lot of money for six minutes’ work.” … “Five dollars for doin’, forty-five for knowin’.”
Últimas palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The soil they took would be moved to some other spot along the Chesapeake, there to be utilized in some new fashion for perhaps a thousand years, after which the waves would borrow it again, using and reusing until that predictable day when the great world-ocean would sweep in to reclaim this entire peninsula, where for a few centuries life had been so pleasant.
Fiction.
Literature.
Thriller.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of Americas Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one mans dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom.
BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii.
Praise for Chesapeake
Another of James Micheners 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
Micheners 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.
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