The Watermen
Selections from Chesapeake
$27.99
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
12 April 2016
Summary
The classic novel from Michener, in trade paperback for the first time, featuring a new introduction by Steve Berry.
Showcasing the evocative artwork created by John Moll for this special edition, James A. Michener’s The Watermen is a unique tribute to the adventurous seafarers of the Chesapeake Bay. Excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s classic Chesapeake, this enthralling novel has a unity and a spirit all its own, telling the story of the bay and its …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812986846 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812986849 |
| Author: | James A. Michener, John Moll, Steve Berry |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Dial Press Inc.,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 12 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 187g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm x 14mm |
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Praise for Chesapeake
Praise for Chesapeake
“Another of James Michener’s 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
“Michener’s 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
About The Author
James A. Michener
James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.
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