The Bayous Of Louisiana

Download The Bayous Of Louisiana full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Bayous Of Louisiana ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Bayou Farewell

Author : Mike Tidwell
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307424928
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bayou Farewell by : Mike Tidwell

Download or read book Bayou Farewell written by Mike Tidwell and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history that makes it unlike any other place in the world. But seeing the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, and whole cemeteries sinking into swampland and out of sight, Tidwell also explains why each introduction may be a farewell—as the storied Louisiana coast steadily erodes into the Gulf of Mexico. Part travelogue, part environmental exposé, Bayou Farewell is the richly evocative chronicle of the author's travels through a world that is vanishing before our eyes.

Bayou-Diversity

Author : Kelby Ouchley
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807177814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bayou-Diversity by : Kelby Ouchley

Download or read book Bayou-Diversity written by Kelby Ouchley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana's bayous and their watersheds teem with cypress trees, alligators, crawfish, and many other life forms. From Bayou Tigre to Half Moon Bayou, these sluggish streams meander through lowlands, marshes, and even uplands to dominate the state's landscape. In Bayou-Diversity, conservationist Kelby Ouchley reveals the bayou's intricate web of flora and fauna. Through a collection of essays about Louisiana's natural history, Ouchley details an amazing array of plants and animals found in the Bayou State. Baldcypress, orchids, feral hogs, eels, black bears, bald eagles, and cottonmouth snakes live in the well over a hundred bayous of the region. Collectively, Ouchley's vignettes portray vibrant and complex habitats. But human interaction with the bayou and our role in its survival, Ouchley argues, will determine the future of these intricate ecosystems. Bayou-Diversity narrates the story of the bayou one flower, one creature at a time, in turn illustrating the bigger picture of this treasured and troubled Louisiana landscape.

South to Louisiana

Author : John Broven
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780882896083
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (96 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis South to Louisiana by : John Broven

Download or read book South to Louisiana written by John Broven and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history of the music of southern Louisiana and examines the influence of Cajun songs on American popular music

Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807129753
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (297 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous by : Carl A. Brasseaux

Download or read book Steamboats on Louisiana's Bayous written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an extraordinary feat of research and intrepid historical navigation, Carl A. Brasseaux and Keith P. Fontenot serve as guides through the labyrinthian and often harrowing world of Louisiana bayou steamboat journeys of the mid to late nineteenth century. The bayou country's steamboat saga mirrors in microcosm the tale of America's most colorful -- and most highly romanticized -- transportation era. But Brasseaux and Fontenot brace readers with a boldly revisionist picture of the opulent Mississippi River floating palaces: stripped-down, utilitarian freight-haulers belching smoke from twin stacks, churning through shallow swamps and narrow tributary streams, and encountering such hazards as shoals, sawyers, stumps, highwater and dry-bed seasons, and the remains of vessels claimed by those treacheries. For decades, steamboats transported goods, passengers, and mail between New Orleans and south Louisiana's vibrant interior agricultural region, bearing testimony to the resourcefulness, ingenuity, and tenacity of crews in conquering the challenges posed by a forbidding environment. Brasseaux and Fontenot marshaled a monumental array of information, including sources long-buried in courthouses, private collections, and the records of the Army Corps of Engineers. They offer data on some five hundred steamboats, keelboats, and barges known to have operated in the bayou country. This book is the first major study of a fascinating slice of the steamboat industry, showcasing a trade critically important to New Orleans's prosperity but largely forgotten in southern historiography until now. Encompassing economic, social, transportation, and environmental history, it captures the period just before the iron horse emerged as America's undisputed master of inland conveyance.

Born on the Bayou

Author : Blaine Lourd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476773874
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Born on the Bayou by : Blaine Lourd

Download or read book Born on the Bayou written by Blaine Lourd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the modern classics The Tender Bar and The Liars’ Club, Blaine Lourd writes a powerful Gothic memoir set in the bayous and oil towns of 1970s Louisiana. In this rags-to-riches memoir of finding your way and becoming a man, Blaine Lourd renders his childhood in rural Louisiana with his larger-than-life father, Harvey “Puffer” Lourd, Jr., a charismatic salesman during the exploding 1980s awl bidness. From cleaning a duck to drinking a beer, Puffer guides Blaine through the twists and turns of growing up, ultimately pointing him to a poignant truth: sometimes those you love the most can inflict the most pain. Set against a lush landscape of magnolia trees and majestic old homes, haunted swamps and swimming holes filled with wildlife, Lourd gets to the heart of being a Southerner with rawness and grace, beautifully detailing what it means to have a place so ingrained in your being. Just as the timeless memoirs All Over but the Shoutin’ and The Liar’s Club evoke the muggy air of a Southern summer and barrels of steaming crawfish, so does Blaine’s contemporary exploration of what it means to find yourself among the bayous and back roads. Charting his journey from his rural home to working the star-studded streets of Los Angeles as a financial advisor to the rich and famous, Blaine’s story is about the complicated path to success and identity. With witty grace and candid prose, he pays homage to family bonds, unwavering loyalty, and deep roots that cannot be severed, no matter how hard you try.

The Bayous of Louisiana

Author : Harnett Thomas Kane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Bayous of Louisiana by : Harnett Thomas Kane

Download or read book The Bayous of Louisiana written by Harnett Thomas Kane and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes "traditions and customs of souther Louisiana; the daily life and work of the friendly bayou people."

The Bayous of Louisiana

Author : Peter S. Feibleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Bayous of Louisiana by : Peter S. Feibleman

Download or read book The Bayous of Louisiana written by Peter S. Feibleman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Teche

Author : Shane K. Bernard
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496809424
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Teche by : Shane K. Bernard

Download or read book Teche written by Shane K. Bernard and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of a 2017 Book of the Year Award presented by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Shane K. Bernard's Teche examines this legendary waterway of the American Deep South. Bernard delves into the bayou's geologic formation as a vestige of the Mississippi and Red Rivers, its prehistoric Native American occupation, and its colonial settlement by French, Spanish, and, eventually, Anglo-American pioneers. He surveys the coming of indigo, cotton, and sugar; steam-powered sugar mills and riverboats; and the brutal institution of slavery. He also examines the impact of the Civil War on the Teche, depicting the running battles up and down the bayou and the sporadic gunboat duels, when ironclads clashed in the narrow confines of the dark, sluggish river. Describing the misery of the postbellum era, Bernard reveals how epic floods, yellow fever, racial violence, and widespread poverty disrupted the lives of those who resided under the sprawling, moss-draped live oaks lining the Teche's banks. Further, he chronicles the slow decline of the bayou, as the coming of the railroad, automobiles, and highways reduced its value as a means of travel. Finally, he considers modern efforts to redesign the Teche using dams, locks, levees, and other water-control measures. He examines the recent push to clean and revitalize the bayou after years of desecration by litter, pollutants, and invasive species. Illustrated with historic images and numerous maps, this book will be required reading for anyone seeking the colorful history of Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. As a bonus, the second part of the book describes Bernard's own canoe journey down the Teche's 125-mile course. This modern personal account from the field reveals the current state of the bayou and the remarkable people who still live along its banks.

Whispers of the Bayou

Author : Mindy Starns Clark
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0736933476
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (369 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Whispers of the Bayou by : Mindy Starns Clark

Download or read book Whispers of the Bayou written by Mindy Starns Clark and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the popular Million Dollar Mysteries and Smart Chick Mysteries comes a new stand-alone novel full of hidden staircases, buried secrets, and the promise of hope found in knowing God. Miranda Miller wasn't looking for the news the day the letter came. But, trying to survive in troubled circumstances, she welcomes the chance to change her location for a period of time. The letter informs her that her grandparents' estate is finally about to become hers. She immediately heads down to Louisiana and the old house by the bayou. There Miranda finds secrets that lead to life-changing revelations. This suspenseful story reminiscent of old Gothic tales has a complex mystery and a vivid sense of the Deep South. It shows how God can take the darkest circumstances and use them to light a bright path leading to the future.

Exploring the Bayous

Author : John L. Tveten
Publisher : David McKay Company
ISBN 13 : 9780679206019
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Exploring the Bayous by : John L. Tveten

Download or read book Exploring the Bayous written by John L. Tveten and published by David McKay Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores life on the bayous, unique waterways found in the southern United States.

Designing the Bayous

Author : Martin Reuss
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585443758
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Designing the Bayous by : Martin Reuss

Download or read book Designing the Bayous written by Martin Reuss and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River Basin is one of the most dynamic and critical environments in the country. It sustains the nation’s last cypress-tupelo wetland and provides a habitat for many species of animals. Endowed with natural gas and oil fields, the basin also supports a large commercial fisheries industry. Perhaps most crucial, it remains a primary component of the plan to control the Mississippi River and relieve flooding in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and other communities in the lower river valley. The continuing health of the basin is a reflection not of nature, but of the work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. With levee building and clearing in the nineteenth century and damming, dredging, and floodway construction in the twentieth, the basin was converted from a vast forested swamp into a designer wetland, where human aspirations and nature maintained a precarious equilibrium. Originally published by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers primarily for internal distribution, this environmental and political history of the Atchafalaya Basin is an unflinching account of the transformation of an area that has endured perhaps more human manipulation than any other natural environment in the nation. Martin Reuss provides a new preface to bring us up-to-date on the state of the basin, which remains both an engineering contrivance and natural wonder.

Murder in the Bayou

Author : Ethan Brown
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982127813
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Murder in the Bayou by : Ethan Brown

Download or read book Murder in the Bayou written by Ethan Brown and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a Showtime documentary, Murder in the Bayou is a New York Times bestselling chronicle of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Southern parish that is “part murder case, part corruption exposé, and part Louisiana noir” (New York magazine). Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered in Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000 in the Jefferson Davis parish. The women came to be known as the Jeff Davis 8, and local law enforcement officials were quick to pursue a serial killer theory, stirring a wave of panic across Jennings’ class-divided neighborhoods. The Jeff Davis 8 had been among society’s most vulnerable—impoverished, abused, and mired with mental illness. They engaged in sex work as a means of survival. And their underworld activity frequently occurred at a decrepit motel called the Boudreaux Inn. As the cases went unsolved, the community began to look inward. Rumors of police corruption and evidence tampering, of collusion between street and shield, cast the serial killer theory into doubt. But what was really going on in the humid rooms of the Boudreaux Inn? Why were crimes going unsolved and police officers being indicted? What had the eight women known? And could anything be done do stop the bloodshed? Mixing muckraking research and immersive journalism over the course of a five-year investigation, Ethan Brown reviewed thousands of pages of previously unseen homicide files to posit what happened during each woman’s final hours delivering a true crime tale that is “mesmerizing” (Rolling Stone) and “explosive” (Huffington Post). “Brown is a man on a mission...he gives the victims more respectful attention than they probably got in real life” (The New York Times). “A must-read for true-crime fans” (Publishers Weekly, starred review), with a new afterword, Murder in the Bayou is the story of an American town buckling under the dark forces of poverty, race, and class division—and a lightning rod for justice for the daughters it lost.

Louisiana Place Names

Author : Clare D'Artois Leeper
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807147397
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Louisiana Place Names by : Clare D'Artois Leeper

Download or read book Louisiana Place Names written by Clare D'Artois Leeper and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aansel to Zwolle, with Mardi Gras Bayou in between, avid writer Clare D Artois Leeper offers her own alphabet of places in Louisiana, both past and present. Louisiana Place Names includes 893 entries that reveal Leeper s distinct view of the state s history. Her unique blend of documented fact and traditional wisdom result in an entertaining guide to Louisiana s place name lore.

Natchez on the Mississippi

Author : Harnett Thomas Kane
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787201902
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Natchez on the Mississippi by : Harnett Thomas Kane

Download or read book Natchez on the Mississippi written by Harnett Thomas Kane and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1947, this book by New Orleans native Harnett Kane provides over 300 pages of detailed history of the Natchez area in Mississippi. It includes vivid descriptions of over 20 antebellum mansions, the personal stories of the families that built them, and the individuals who called them home. History buffs will be interested in reading about the many famous figures named in this book, such as Andrew Jackson and Aaron Burr, who were among those who helped shape the state’s history, and in some cases, the history of the American nation. Also included in Kane’s retelling of interesting and entertaining stories about Natchez are two that garnered national interest in years past: the famous steamboat race between The Natchez and The Robert E. Lee, and the infamous story of Natchez’s "Goat Castle." A fascinating read.

Dark Bayou

Author : Alan G. Gauthreaux
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476622965
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Dark Bayou by : Alan G. Gauthreaux

Download or read book Dark Bayou written by Alan G. Gauthreaux and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection chronicles the most mysterious, bizarre and often overlooked homicides in Louisiana history. Drawing on contemporary records and, where available, the recollections of those who provide a coherent version of the facts, these mesmerizing tales detail some of the more gruesome episodes: the rise of the first Mafia godfather in the United States; the murder of two New Orleans police chiefs; the brutal murder of a famous New Orleans madam; the story of a respectable young woman who "accidentally" poisoned her younger sister and is a suspect in other family deaths; the ritual killing of blacks in southwestern Louisiana and eastern Texas; the mysterious death of a young housewife which still generates debate; and the demise of a local celebrity who believed in his own invincibility.

Bayou Song

Author : Margaret Gibson Simon
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 : 9781946160232
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (62 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Bayou Song by : Margaret Gibson Simon

Download or read book Bayou Song written by Margaret Gibson Simon and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected to represent the state of Louisiana in the "52 Great Reads" children's book program at the 2018 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Bayou Song: Creative Explorations of the South Louisiana Landscape is a poetic journey along Louisiana's Bayou Teche. Through poetry and art, explore the plants and animals that live along and in the bayou. Teachers will find ideas and prompts for teaching students about the habitat of Louisiana wetlands through poetry and creative writing. Invitations to write and draw make this book an interactive journal for those of all ages who wish to admire and be inspired by South Louisiana's landscape.

My Bayou

Author : Constance Adler
Publisher : Michigan State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611860320
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis My Bayou by : Constance Adler

Download or read book My Bayou written by Constance Adler and published by Michigan State University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly described and intensely personal memoir, My Bayou charts a personal and spiritual transformation along the fabled banks of Bayou Saint John in New Orleans. When Constance Adler moves to New Orleans, she begins what becomes a lasting love affair with the city, and especially the bayou—a living entity and the beating heart of local culture. Rites of passage, celebrations, mysterious accidents, and magic all take place on its banks, leading Adler to a vibrant awareness of the power of being part of a community. That faith is tested in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and is ultimately proven right, as Bayou Saint John begins to rebuild.