Description: The four-hundred-year saga of America's Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the present.
Review Quotes: "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 are enthusiastically passed from friend to friend."--Associated Press