Louisiana Voyages
Subtitle: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: March 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781578068265
Subjects: Women's Studies - General; United States - South - West South Central (General); Travel; Travel - United States; United States - South - Louisiana; Women's Studies - History; United States - State & Local - South; Essays & Travelogues; 1855-1898; Description and travel; Field, Martha Reinhard Smallwood,; Homes and haunts; Louisiana
First sentence: In the fall of 1892, after summer vacationers had returned to New Orleans, Martha Field took a boating excursion across Barataría Bay to Grand Isle.
Description: "Toward the end of the 19th century, journalist Field traveled by boat and buggy around Louisiana, writing columns under the name of Catharine Cole for the New Orleans Daily Picayune. Her work spread to other papers, and she was read widely throughout the South. This collection details her journeys around the state in the 1890s. With evocative and adjective-filled prose, she describes the beauty as well as the practical aspects of Louisiana life, including shrimp drying, levee building, and the cost of land. Field conjures up vivid images of the places she visits, such as the town that "lifts its comb of roof and gray gable and soft-colored adobe chimneys from out the clumps and clouds of the chinaberry tree." The editors, both retired professors of English at Clemson University, add brief introductions to each piece. Although Field's travel adventures depict a time without modern convenience, when women were not expected to journey alone, her enjoyment of travel for its own sake resonates with readers today. Recommended for Louisiana libraries and for academic libraries with a Southern history collection.-Janet Clapp, Athens-Clarke Cty. Lib., Athens, GA Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information."--Library Jour.