Down on the batture [[electronic resource] /] / Oliver A. Houck
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| Autore: |
Houck Oliver A
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| Titolo: |
Down on the batture [[electronic resource] /] / Oliver A. Houck
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| Pubblicazione: | Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 976.3/35 |
| Soggetto topico: | Community life - Louisiana - New Orleans Region |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; The Batture; Motorcycle; Property; High Water; Superbowl; Spillway; Expressway; Elvis; Statue; Low Water; Parish Line; Southport; Molytones; Ghosts; Rivermen; High Wires; Casino; Seagulls; Joe Louis; Katrina; Rabbit; Liberty; Ferry; Cycling; Paggio; Homicide; Even; Gypsum; Fight; Gustav; Dewberries; IT; Communist; Squatters; Oil; Time; Malorie; Dog; Highest and Best; Acknowledgments; Sources |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The lower Mississippi River winds past the City of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called ""the batture."" On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity unique to the region-ramblers, artists, drinkers, fishers, rabbit hunters, dog walkers, sunset watchers, and refugees from Immigration, alimony, and other aspects of modern life. Author Oliver A. Houck has frequented this place for the past twenty-five years. Down on the Batture describes a life, pastoral, at times marginal, but remarkably fecund and surprising. From this place he meditates o |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Down on the batture |
| ISBN: | 1-282-57937-1 |
| 9786612579370 | |
| 1-60473-462-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458219003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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