Chesapeake is a wonderful book from start to finish. James Michener, composed the first voyage so beautifully developing the character Pentaquod with the surroundings around him that he described well enough for my to picture what he was going through from the start. I was very fascinated with how well he described the journey from the start from when he runs away from his Susquehannock village. I was very interested from how he devised to get away and escape. The landscaping was different then what I am used to and when I read it, I felt like I was actually there which was a different experience than any other book that I have read. From when he met with the blue bird which he found out from his new home of the Choptanks. The kraaaaaank birds to the oysters and lobsters that he dined on. Even the experience of the giant mosquitoes from which he had to learn to fend from and help the Choptanks to. The way that the tribes interacted and how their previous leader before Pentaquod acted was a weird culture compared to what we have today. The land has changed a great deal from when the pilgrims and people like john smith started to come over. Pentaquod was amazing and had served his new village of the Choptanks well. They learn how to defend themselves and a great deal more from the way of the Susquehannocks from Pentaquod. Pentaquod had learned a great deal from the village too. It was exciting from how the village all knew the story of the great big ship that can go on the water. From their prospective they were more scared of it because they didn't understand it. It was also interesting how the Choptanks or the Indians in general were so far back technologically compared to John Smith and his people and how they were amazed and yet scared of the "Great Canoe."