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James A Michener's Chesapeake is a lengthy (over 1100 pages) work of historical fiction spanning the years 1583 to 1978. It was made all the more satisfying by the authoritative geological, cultural, scientific and political commentary included in the novel. There is history a plenty to learn with an amazing cast of fictional and real life characters as disparate as George Washington, Hitler and Richard Nixon. Michener’s observations about environmental degradation and its impact on both natural
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