Down on the batture
By: Oliver A. Houck.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781604734614
Subjects: Houck, Oliver A. -- Travel -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Region; Community life -- Louisiana -- New Orleans Region; New Orleans Region (La.) -- Social life and customs; New Orleans Region (La.) -- Environmental conditions; New Orleans Region (La.) -- Description and travel; New Orleans Region (La.) -- Biography; Mississippi River Region -- Social life and customs; Mississippi River Region -- Environmental conditions; Mississippi River Region -- Description and travel
Genres: Biography
Description: "Author Oliver A. Houck has frequented this place for the past twentyfive years. Down on the Batture describes a life, pastoral, at times marginal, but remarkably fecund and surprising. From this place he meditates on Louisiana, the state of the waterway, and its larger environs. He describes all the actors that have played lead roles on the edge of the mightiest river of the continent, and includes in his narrative plantations, pollution, murder, land grabs, keelboat brawlers, slave rebellions, the Corps of Engineers, and the oil industry"--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.