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Book Synopsis A Wetland Biography by : Gay M. Gomez
Download or read book A Wetland Biography written by Gay M. Gomez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisiana's Chenier Plain is a 2,200-square-mile region of marshes and oak-covered ridges (cheniers) that stretches along the Gulf of Mexico from Sabine Lake to Vermilion Bay. Its inhabitants, some 6,000 people of Cajun and other ancestries, retain strong economic and cultural ties to the land and its teeming wildlife. They call it paradise...but it is a vulnerable paradise. In this multifaceted study, Gay Gomez explores the interaction of the land, people, and wildlife of the Chenier Plain, revealing both the uniqueness of the region and the challenges it faces. After describing the geography and history of the Chenier Plain, Gomez turns to the lifeways of its people. Drawing on their words and stories, she tells how the chenier dwellers combine modern occupations with traditional pursuits such as alligator and waterfowl hunting, fur trapping, and fishing. She shows how these traditions of wildlife use provide both economic incentives for conservation and a source of personal and place identity. This portrait of a "working wetland" reveals how wildlife use and appreciation can give rise to a stewardship that balances biological, economic, and cultural concerns in species and habitat protection.
Book Synopsis Alligator Bayou by : Donna Jo Napoli
Download or read book Alligator Bayou written by Donna Jo Napoli and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable novel, based on a true story, about racism against Italian Americans in the South in 1899. Fourteen-year-old Calogero, his uncles, and his cousins are six Sicilians living in the small town of Tallulah, Louisiana, miles from any of their countrymen. They grow vegetables and sell them at their stand and in their grocery store. Some people welcome the immigrants; most do not. Calogero's family is caught in the middle of tensions between the black and white communities. As Calogero struggles to adapt to Tallulah, he is startled and thrilled by the danger of midnight gator hunts in the bayou and by his powerful feelings for Patricia, a sharp-witted, sweet-natured black girl. Meanwhile, every day, and every misunderstanding between the white community and the Sicilians, bring Calogero and his family closer to a terrifying, violent confrontation. In this affecting and unforgettable novel, Donna Jo Napoli's inspired research and spare, beautiful language take the classic immigrant story to new levels of emotion and searing truth. Alligator Bayou tells a story that all Americans should know.
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer by :
Download or read book The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Uniquely Louisiana by : Donna Loughran
Download or read book Uniquely Louisiana written by Donna Loughran and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the images on Louisiana's state seal stand for? How is Louisiana's state government organized? What is a Mardi Gras celebration like? You can find the answers to these questions and more in this book, which contains all kinds of fun and fascinating facts and features that help make Louisiana a one-of-a-kind place. You will also find information about Louisiana's unique system of laws. You will learn about the different kinds of music that started in Louisiana, such as jazz and zydeco, and the different cultures that help make Louisiana unique. Also, get the recipe for gumbo! And, you will find out about Louisiana's many lighthouses. Plus, there are maps to help you find your way around the state.
Book Synopsis When I Was an Alligator by : Gayle Webre
Download or read book When I Was an Alligator written by Gayle Webre and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curious Cajun girl imagines herself as a series of animals, birds, and insects of the wetlands, delighting in the habits and habitat of each.
Download or read book American Alligator written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting by : Frank Miniter
Download or read book Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting written by Frank Miniter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the Left's anti-hunting propaganda is dead wrong! Nothing is more hated--and more misunderstood--by the trendy Left than hunting. But now intrepid hunter and pro-hunting activist Frank Miniter sets the record straight. In The Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Hunting, he details the concrete benefits that hunting provides to all of us--even how it helps the environment. Speaking with wildlife biologists, hunters, farmers, anti-hunters, and victims of animal attacks, Miniter explains how banning hunting negatively affects wildlife populations and conservation. Miniter's fearless, politically incorrect take on hunting lays out the facts that liberal enviro-nuts don't want you to know.
Book Synopsis Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People by :
Download or read book Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Feliciana Feydra LeRoux by : Tynia Thomassie
Download or read book Feliciana Feydra LeRoux written by Tynia Thomassie and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published: Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1995.
Download or read book Manchac Swamp written by Sims, Julia and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Explorer's Guide Louisiana (Explorer's Complete) by : Cynthia Campbell
Download or read book Explorer's Guide Louisiana (Explorer's Complete) written by Cynthia Campbell and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive travel guide to Louisiana, with maps and information on hotels and restaurants, shopping and entertainment, and other interesting sites.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Sojourns by : Frank de Caro
Download or read book Louisiana Sojourns written by Frank de Caro and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-05-01 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping collection of observations and episodes penned by visitors to Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the 1990s, Louisiana Sojourns is—much like the state itself—a wonder to behold in its sum, and in its particulars, full of surprise and delight. The seventy-six pieces that Frank A. de Caro has selected give readers a vivid sense of how Louisiana's unique blend of Old World, South, the exotic, and quintessential America has exerted a pull and hold on travelers. Included are writings by well-known figures such as Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, Frederick Law Olmsted, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, John James Audubon, Calvin Trillin, Zora Neale Hurston, A. J. Liebling, William Least Heat Moon, and Frederick Turner. Dozens of other wayfarers are represented as well.
Book Synopsis American Alligator by : Kelby Ouchley
Download or read book American Alligator written by Kelby Ouchley and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having survived since the Mesozoic era, alligators teetered on the brink of extinction in the 1960s. Their recovery in the 1970s was largely due to legislative intervention, and today populations are closely monitored throughout their range. American Alligator is the most up-to-date and comprehensive treatment of this resilient relic, a creature with a brain weighing less than half an ounce that has successfully adapted to a changing Earth for more than 200 million years. Kelby Ouchley chronicles the evolution of A. mississippiensis from "shieldcroc"--the last common ancestor of modern-day alligators, crocodiles, caimans, and gavials--to its current role as keystone of the ecological health of America's southern swamps and marshes. In Florida, the apex predator uses its snout and feet to clear muck from holes in the limestone bedrock. During the dry season, these small ponds or "alligator holes" provide refuge, food, and water for a variety of wildlife. In Louisiana, millions of dollars are spent on the bounty of the non-native nutria that overgraze marsh vegetation, but alligators prey on these coastal rodents free of charge. The loss of the American alligator would be a blow to biodiversity and an ecosystem disruption affecting all levels of the food chain. While the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed it from the endangered species list in 1987 and today regulates the legal trade of the animal and its products, Ouchley cautions us not to forget the lessons learned: human activities, from urban development to energy production, can still threaten the future of the gator and its southern wetland habitat.
Download or read book Louisiana dayride written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guidebook to hundreds of exciting places to visit while radiating from the hub of the Crescent City.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer by :
Download or read book Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alligators written by Kent A. Vliet and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide to understanding the biology and behavior of the amazing and underappreciated American alligator. Few scenes put the senses on edge more than a submerged alligator, only eyes and snout showing, when peering across a southern lake on a misty morning. An iconic American predator, these reptiles grow to thirteen feet or more and can live as long as humans. Alligators are complex creatures, capable of terrific attacks and yet tending to their young in the same gentle way a mother duck looks after her brood. Once extremely numerous, alligators came close to extinction in the twentieth century, but thanks to conservation efforts have since made a comeback, reclaiming their rightful place as the monarchs of the southern wetlands. In this fascinating account, richly illustrated with more than 150 photographs from award-winning wildlife photographer Wayne Lynch, expert zoologist Kent A. Vliet introduces readers to the biology, ecology, and natural history of the American alligator. Sharing nuanced depictions of their hidden lives that will forever change the way you think of these giant reptiles, the book • combines captivating storytelling with the most current scientific facts • chronicles the life cycle of the alligator • explains why the alligator's precise anatomy and physiology make it so successful • covers a wide range of topics, from courtship and reproduction to communication, basking, nest-building, and hunting • reveals the alligator's sophisticated social life in detail • evaluates the alligator's environmental role as a keystone species • examines the complicated relationship between alligators and people
