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Title: Two stars solely for the subject matter.
Review: I'll start by admiting that I typically do not read "historical fiction," but read this out of an interest in the Chesapeake Bay. Michener seems to have begun this book with a list of (worthy) Chesapeake-related things to highlight, such as crab cakes, skipjacks, Labrador Retrievers, and the natural beauty of estuarine wetlands, and created generations of one-dimensional characters (e.g., inbred swamp-dwelling white trash and pure-hearted Quakers) and an overbearingly moralistic plot to tell how they came to be. Also, the editing of this book is pathetic -- poor grammar and misuse of "big" words are rampant. I much prefer the historical writing of Madison Smartt Bell (All Soul's Rising) and T.C. Boyle (World's End - only semi-historical). If this book had been about something I wasn't interested in, like... New Jersey, I never could have finished it.
