Atchafalaya Houseboat : My Years in the Louisiana Swamp /

In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people⁰́₄Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin⁰́₄decided 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Roland, Gwen, 1948-
Otros Autores: Lockwood, C. C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Roland, Gwen, > 1948-
Travel.
Swamps.
River life.
Manners and customs.
Houseboats.
Boat living.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies.
River life > Louisiana > Atchafalaya River Region.
Boat living > Louisiana > Atchafalaya River Region.
Houseboats > Louisiana > Atchafalaya River Region.
Swamps > Louisiana > Atchafalaya River Region.
Atchafalaya River Region (La.) > Biography.
Atchafalaya River Region (La.) > Description and travel.
Atchafalaya River Region (La.) > Social life and customs.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; I. Swamp Gas Journal; 1. The Decision; 2. Earning Money; 3. Building; 4. Always About the Water; 5. The Mysterious Woodsman; 6. Summer Swamp; 7. Two Dozen Flapjacks and a Swamper's Tale; 8. Summer Storm; 9. The Trip; 10. Implications of Autumn; 11. Nightlife; 12. The Town That Lives Once a Year; 13. Houseboat Haunts; 14. Rx: Gunpowder, Cobwebs, and Honey; 15. The Social Season; II. The Turning of a Year; 16. Mark Twain, Mike Fink, and Me; 17. Rolling on the River; 18. How I Left; III. Full Circle; 19. Robert Rodale and Minnie Ziegler
  • 20. Flickers of Swamp GasEpilogue: Calvin; A Note on C. C. Lockwood; Map of the Bayou Chene area; Photographs

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