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Atchafalaya Houseboat
Author | : Gwen Roland |
Publsiher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2006-04-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780807161746 |
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In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a book called How to Build Your Home in the Woods, they drew up plans to recycle a slave-built structure into a houseboat. Without power tools or building experience they constructed a floating dwelling complete with a brick fireplace. Towed deep into the sleepy waters of Bloody Bayou, it was their home for eight years. This is the tale of the not-so-simple life they made together -- days spent fishing, trading, making wine, growing food, and growing up -- told by Gwen with grace, economy, and eloquence. Not long after they took up swamp living, Gwen and Calvin met a young photographer named C. C. Lockwood, who shared their "back to the earth" values. His photographs of the couple going about their daily routine were published in National Geographic magazine, bringing them unexpected fame. More than a quarter of a century later, after Gwen and Calvin had long since parted, one of Lockwood's photos of them appeared in a National Geographic collector's edition entitled 100 Best Pictures Unpublished -- and kindled the interest of a new generation. With quiet wisdom, Gwen recounts her eight-year voyage of discovery -- about swamp life, wildlife, and herself. A keen observer of both the natural world and the ways of human beings, she transports readers to an unfamiliar and exotic place.
Shantyboat
Author | : Harlan Hubbard |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0813113598 |
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Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
Atchafalaya Houseboat My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
Author | : Gwen Roland |
Publsiher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Atchafalaya River Region (La.) |
ISBN | : 9780807137284 |
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Atchafalaya Autumn
Author | : Greg Guirard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1995-10-01 |
Genre | : Atchafalaya River (La.) |
ISBN | : 0962477834 |
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journal entries from camping in the Atchafalaya Basin of Mississippi and Red Rivers.
River Music
Author | : Ann McCutchan,Earl Robicheaux |
Publsiher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781603442893 |
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Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River Basin, the heart and soul of Acadiana, or Cajun country, is the focus of this compelling narrative by Ann McCutchan. A masterful weaving of cultural and environmental history, River Music also tells the life story of Louisiana musician, naturalist, and sound documentarian Earl Robicheaux. With Robicheaux as her guide, McCutchan embarks on a musical, visual, literary, and historical tour of the Atchafalaya, where bayous, swamps, marshes, and river delta country have long sustained nature and culture, even as industry has changed both the landscape and the people. Along the way, she and Robicheaux pay homage to distinctive voices of the region’s singular soundscape, including Acadian and Native American elders, birds, frogs, alligators, wind, water, and weather, which Robicheaux chronicles in archival recordings and musical compositions for museum exhibits, radio programs, and repositories such as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. A CD of Robicheaux's soundscapes is included with the book. In counterpoint, McCutchan recounts Robicheaux’s remarkable struggles as a jazz and classical artist, Katrina victim, cancer survivor, and steadfast son of the Basin devoted to remembering, preserving, and sounding out the ecological and cultural riches of his home. An original blend of nature writing, music history, biography, journalism, and memoir, River Music: An Atchafalaya Story eloquently celebrates the one-and-half-million watery acres that have shaped the lives of the people there—and been transformed by them in return. An epilogue written in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the disastrous oil spill that followed provides a fitting and poignant coda to this memorable book.
The houseboat book
Author | : William Francis Waugh |
Publsiher | : Litres |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9785041206789 |
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Canoe Trip
Author | : David Curran |
Publsiher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780811740241 |
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Each year Dave Curran travels alone by canoe into the Maine wilderness. He's paddled the Seboeis, the Allagash and the Moose. Despite the foolhardiness of such an adventure, he prefers to go alone. It's easier to plan, and going alone he's more focused, less distracted. He goes for the challenge, battling weather, bears, black flies, mosquitoes, getting lost. He goes for the scenery, the wildness, the silence, the peace. Curran works as a clinical psychologist and lives with his wife and two children in Berlin, Massachusetts.
Water Rivers and Creeks
Author | : Luna Bergere Leopold |
Publsiher | : University Science Books |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0935702989 |
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"By integrating the basics of hydrology and geomorphology with the practical formulation of policy, this book is intended for the general public, students of environmental studies, legislators, policy makers, and all others who are interested in the use, control, and management of water."--Jacket.