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Peter Loon

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ISBN-10: 0142003115

ISBN-13: 9780142003114

Edition: N/A

Authors: Van Reid

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Deep in the north woods of Maine, as the Revolutionary War comes to an end, Peter Loon sets off at his mother's urging to find a mysterious person. Peter, who has never been away from home, quickly falls into a series of startling entanglements. Providentially, he befriends a nomadic parson with a seafaring past whose humble intelligence and steady head prove useful, especially when the two find themselves in the middle of a bitter land battle between hardscrabble homesteaders and the "Great Proprietors," who claim the land through royal grants and contradictory Indian deeds. Van Reid's inimitable storytelling, irresistible characters, and gentle humor will captivate readers in this tale of…    
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Book details

List price: $14.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/29/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

His family has lived in Maine since the eighteenth century, and for the past ten years he has been assistant manager at the Maine Coast Book Shop in Damariscotta. He lives with his wife and children in Edgecomb.

How Ezekiel Peter Black Came to Sheepscott Great Pond and How His Young Daughter Was Courted
Of Rosemund Loon's Strangeness, and Silas Loon's Death, and How Their Son Peter Was Sent in Search of an Uncle "By Marriage."
Of Peter Loon's First Night in the Forest
How Peter Loon Conjured Himself from a Felled Buck, and How He Met Two Woodsmen and a Parson
How Peter Fell in with Parson Leach
Of the March to Plymouth Gore, and of the Place They Went Instead
How Peter Loon and Parson Leach Were Received at the Ale Wife's Tavern, Who They Met, and What They Learned There
Concerning a Conversation on the Beach, and the Consequences of Mr. Tillage's Peep of Heaven
Concerning Antinomianism and Other Matters
Of the Road to New Milford, Unexpected Meetings, and How a Peaceful Man Might Be Driven to Anger
Concerning a Change in Plans, a Parting of the Ways, as Well as an Introduction to the Busy Abode of Captain Clayden as Governed by Mrs. Magnamous
Concerning an Interview with Captain Clayden
How Peter Spent His First Night on Clayden Point, and How He Was Perceived by Young Women There
Of What It Meant to Pique-Nique and the Inevitability of Certain Failures
Concerning New Visitors to Captain Clayden and Their Opinions
Of the Road to New Milford, and What They Discovered at Great Meadow Copse
Concerning the Encounter at Benjamin Brook
How Opinion Differed over the Course of a Few Hours and a Few Miles, and What Was Said at the Sign of the Star and Sturgeon
Concerning Matters with Elspeth Gray and Gray Farm
How the Parson Was Accused by--and Peter Attached to--Nathan Barrow
Concerning the Disposition of Two Hundred
Concerning the March to Wiscasset
How Peter Came to His Third Tavern, and How He Put the Night's Adventures into Motion
How Peter Loon Came to the Jail at Wiscasset and What Happened There
How Peter Loon Returned to New Milford and How He Left There Again
How Peter Journeyed Home and What He Found There
Concerning Peter Loon's Decisions and also What Was Decided for Him