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"The American Revolution has ended. The District of Maine remains a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Deep in these north woods, a young man, a boy, really, who has never been away from his home in Sheepscott Great Pond, sets off at his mother's urging to search for a person he has never met. His travels quickly lead him into a series of startling entanglements and adventures and, providentially, into a friendship with a nomadic parson with a seafaring past whose humble intelligence and steady head prove useful when Peter Loon finds the world away from home to be more dangerous and…
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4 editions- Other · English · 2015Down East Books · 320 pages · 9781608935307
- Other · English · 2015Down East Enterprise, Incorporated · 9781608935314
- Other · English · 2003Penguin (Non-Classics) · 299 pages · 9780142003114
- Other · English · 2002Viking · 298 pages · 9780670030521
Frontier and pioneer lifeLand settlementFictionYoung menHistoryNew York Times reviewedFiction, general