Chesapeake

Michener, James A.

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Random House, Inc., 1979

0394500792 / 9780394500799

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5th Printing.The central scene, however, is neither the broad Atlantic nor even the entire bay, but that dramatic section of Maryland's Eastern Shore, hardly more than ten miles square, where the Choptank River flows into the Chesapeake. To this point come the founders of families that will dominate the story. The first, in 1583, is Pentaquod, the tall Susquehannock, in flight from a dangerous conflict with his tribe. He finds the peaceful and ineffectual Choptank Indians and becomes their chief. In 1611 Edmund Steed, having come to Jamestown to escape the persecution of Catholics in England, moves up the bay to the Choptank. He is followed in 1638 by a fugitive from justice. Timothy Turlock: and in 1664 by the militant Quaker Edward Paxmore, who has been banished from Massachusetts. The nineteenth century brings three more founding fathers. In 1833 the African Cudjo, after being sold into slavery and surviving a year of horrible adventures, is bought for a Steed plantation, where his torments continue until his strength and resourcefulness surmount them. Michael Caveny escapes a famine in Ireland and arrives in 1852. Otto Pflaum, seaman, is "introduced" to the area in 1893 by Tim Caveny and Jake Turlock. The descendants of these extraordinary men produce over the years a wide variety of characters who play major and minor roles in this compelling story. No reader will forget Captain Matt Turlock, Paul Steed, Hugo Pflaum, Pusey Paxmore, or Cudjo's great-great-grandson Hiram Cater. Perhaps most memorable are some of the women who join the principal families through matrimony: Rosalind Janney Steed (most of all) Ruth Brinton Paxmore and Rachel Starbuck Paxmore, relentless fighters against slavery; Eden, the Steed slave whom Cudjo Cater marries; and Julia Cater, wife of Cudjo's great-grandson and mother of Hiram. Preceding each of the chapters in this elegantly wrought book, there is an account of a voyage-over water or land or both.

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Titre
Chesapeake
Auteur
Michener, James A.
Éditeur
Random House, Inc.
Année de publication
1979
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0394500792
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780394500799
Illustrateur
ntroduced" to the area in 1893 by Tim Caveny and Jake Turlock. The descendants of these extraordinary men produce over the years a wide variety of characters who play major and minor roles in this compelling story."
Édition
2ème Édition

Grants Books

Belding, MI, Etats-Unis

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