Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Vintage $16.00
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...
The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story by Ecco $23.95
Julia Reed went to New Orleans in 1991 to cover the reelection of former (and currently incarcerated) governor Edwin Edwards. Seduced by the city's sauntering pace, its rich flavors and exotic atmosphere, she was never entirely able to leave again. After almost fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, she got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District....
Louisiana Off the Beaten Path, 9th: A Guide to Unique Places (Off the Beaten Path Series) by GPP Travel $11.99
Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, let Louisiana Off the Beaten Path show you the Pelican State you never knew existed.
Lonely Planet Louisiana & the Deep South by Lonely Planet Publications $21.99
Got a hankering for some down-home eats, toe-tapping music and soul stirring history? From Southern comforts and juke joints to Civil Rights sites, this guide serves up a heap of information including lodging for all budgets, advice on the best po-boys, barbecue, crawfish, gumbo and includes a glossary of Southern expressions.
Mardi Gras . . . As It Was by Pelican Publishing $11.95
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is an annual explosion of tumultuous celebration. It began among the French Creoles of New Orleans, and after the Civil War developed into a city-wide event with the visit of the Russian Grand Duke Alexis in 1870. In this reprint of the classic work by one of Louisiana's most notable authors, Robert Tallant examines the history and customs of Mardi Gras. He depicts...
Managing Ignatius: The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs and Life in the Quarter by Stephen E. Ambrose $24.95
In John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "A Confederacy of Dunces, Ignatius J. Reilly, an overweight genius misfit, winds up selling wienies for Paradise Vendors, Inc. (the fictional equivalent of Lucky Dogs) in New Orleans' French Quarter. In "Managing Ignatius", Strahan relates his amusing--and bemusing--experiences working for more than two decades with the audacious characters who...
New Orleans Stories: Great Writers on the City by John Miller $12.95
Alive with jazz and tropical flowers, its streets an intoxicating 24-hour party, New Orleans exerts a hypnotic effect on virtually every visitor and resident, but perhaps none have been more susceptible to its exotic charm than the writers who have lived there. From Mark Twain to William Faulkner to Anne Rice; from Kate Chopin to Zora Neale Hurston to Ellen Gilchrist; from Tennessee Williams to...
Insiders' Guide to Baton Rouge (Insiders' Guide Series) by Insiders' Guide $16.95
A first edition, Insiders' Guide to Baton Rouge is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to the Louisiana's capital city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Baton Rouge and its surrounding environs.
New Orleans Cemeteries: Life in the Cities of the Dead by Batture Press $29.95
From the edge of the French Quarter to the heart of the bayou, New Orleans Cemeteries: Life in the Cities of the Dead is a journey through the Crescent City as seen through her phenomenal aboveground cemeteries. Through their artful and documentary-style color and black and white photographs, Robert and Mason Florence depict the "cities of the dead" in all their grandeur and decay, exquisite...
AFTER THE FLOOD by Jeff L. Rosenheim $90.00
In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city's broken levees. He found the streets deserted, and, without electricity, eerily dark. The next day he began to photograph, house by house: "All the places I went in, the doors were just open. They had been opened by what I collectively call "the army", of maybe 20...