Burt Dow, Deep-Water Man

Author(s): Robert McCloskey

Location(s): Maine

Genre(s): Children, Fiction

Era(s): 1980s

Whenever Burt Dow, who lives in a snug little house on the Maine coast, sets out to sea, his pet giggling gull goes along. But this time, it will take all his might and some plain old ingenuity to save him and the gull from a raging storm.

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