People of the Bayou
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He thoroughly knows and respects his subject, and his writing is clean lively, and, on occasion, warmly affecting. - -New Yorker Christopher Hallowell is a skillful writer on natural history. --Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review The sprawling marshland of the lower Mississippi has spawned one of the most interesting indigenous cultures in all America--the Cajuns. Since the eighteenth century, they have clung to their ways, including their remarkable French-based patois, their deep love of the land and water around them, their world-famous cuisine, and their enviable love of life. Along with his affectionate and lyrical portrait of the people he came to know, Christopher Hallowell provides a history of the region, its geology, its settlement, and the efforts of land speculators and oil companies to develop it. People of the Bayou is a haunting record of a place in transition--another corner of American culture facing assimilation into the mainstream, a way of life that may be gone before we know it.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0525177280
ISBN13:9780525177289
Release Date:October 1979
Publisher:Dutton Books
Length:141 Pages
Weight:0.72 lbs.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I discovered this book in the library at least 10 years ago and have reread it several times. Each Cajun family and the unique environment they live in is described in such rich and exact detail that I feel as though I'm right there beside them. The author does an equally good job in explaining how erosion is threatening their way of life and the health of this valuable and irreplaceable ecosystem. Out of concern for these people and the bayou, I've tried, unsuccessfully so far, to find a follow up to this book. It's a great read - personal but written with respect to the Cajuns and the bayou.
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