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Title: Bayou Farewell : The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast by Mike Tidwell ISBN: 0-375-42076-2 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
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Rating: 5
Summary: Review from Louisiana Sportsman magazine
Comment: A Washington, D.C., area resident, Tidwell came to Louisiana to write a story for the Washington Post about hitch-hiking on Cajun Country shrimp boats.
But what he found was the greatest untold story in America, one about which he and his associates had never heard a single word ' the death of the Louisiana coast. ...Tidwell came in with no preconceived ideas about the environmental disaster along the Louisiana coast.
The marsh, however, grabbed him with her cord-grass fingers, and pulled him into herself. She showed him her blanched oak skeletons that stand defiant and scream like sentinels, her deeply dredged canals that fester like scars on the skin of an old mother, and her beaches that are being stripped of their load with the efficiency of a thousand miners.
The marsh cried for Tidwell ' an outsider ' to be her voice, and he's answered the call.
Bayou Farewell is an amazing book. Actually, amazing isn't adequately superlative. It's an astounding book that ought to be required reading in every high school in Louisiana, if not the nation.
It was a book only a non-Louisianian could have written, and Tidwell, with his mastery of the English language and breathtakingly descriptive prose, was perfect for the task. The marsh ' the mother of our Louisiana culture ' knew what she was doing, even in this hour as she lay on her death bed.
And she is, indeed, on her death bed.
The author brings the coastal erosion disaster to a national audience by giving it life through the words and actions of the people who live in the marshes and watch helplessly as the Gulf day by day nibbles its way toward their homes.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bayou Farewell - read it before it's too late
Comment: Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell is a first-rate book and highly recommended. This book is about the loss of land along coastal Louisiana. At a rate of about 25 sqaure miles (or more) per year, Louisiana is losing the shallow water estuary that both supports a very productive fishing industry and offers storm surge protection during hurricanes. The reasons for the loss of land are presented in the book. With the sense of a road-trip adventurer, Mike Tidwell researched this issue by hitch-hiking his way up and down the bayous so that he could talk to and gather information from residents, fishermen, and scientists. The result is a report that combines scientific facts with cultural insight into what makes this region of the US a national treasure. Every American should read this book because this is a national issue that rarely gets reported in the media. If you like seafood, enjoy Cajun culture or like to visit New Orleans, then you should read this book. I particularly appreciated Mike Tidwell's ability to weave scientific discussions (e.g., river geomorphology) with cultural information such as the annual blessing of the fleet. This is an engaging and enlightening book. Read it soon before the story comes to a tragic ending.
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Title: Holding Back the Sea: The Struggle for America's Natural Legacy on the Gulf Coast by Christopher Hallowell ISBN: 0060194464 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 03 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: People of the Bayou Cajun Life in Lost America by Christopher Hallowell ISBN: 1589801121 Publisher: Pelican Pub Co Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: RISING TIDE: THE GREAT MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF 1927 AND HOW IT CHANGED AMERICA by John M. Barry ISBN: 0684840022 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Cajuns: Americanization of a People by Shane K. Bernard ISBN: 1578065232 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Swamp : Bayou Teche, Louisiana, 1851 by Kathleen Duey, Karen A. Bale, Bill Dodge ISBN: 0689829299 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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