Book Review from Waterways Journal
Tales of riverboats and Coast Guard cutters is the focus of a new book, Brown-Water Boating, by author and retired journalist Dean Gabbert. It is scheduled for release in mid-November.
Gabbert, author of Let The Lower Lights Be Burning and The Log of the Jessie Bill, has had 16 of his entertaining river stories published in The Waterways Journal over the years, says publisher Nelson Spencer, who expressed pleasure that the author had included them among the 39 chapters in Brown-Water Boating...
A Reader's Book Review
Dean Gabbert has written another fine book: Brownwater Boating, Tales of Riverboats and Coast Guard Cutters...235 pages of good reading divvyed up into thirty-nine stories or subjects associated with the great rivers that drain Mid America.
Maybe you are somewhat like me. Until recently I remembered Dean there in the public offices of the Ledger, a friend to one and all in Fairfield, but actually he has also been an intrepid brown water reporter and the friend to one and all who had a interest in, lived near, took care of, loved and/or were served by the Mississippi and all of its tributaris, plus river rats and boat people country wide...
