He thoroughly knows and respects his subject, and his writing is clean lively, and, on occasion, warmly affecting. - -New Yorker Christopher Hallowell is a skillful writer on natural history. --Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review The sprawling marshland of the lower Mississippi has spawned one of the most interesting indigenous cultures in all America--the Cajuns. Since the eighteenth century, they have clung to their ways, including their remarkable French-based patois, their deep love of the land and water around ...
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He thoroughly knows and respects his subject, and his writing is clean lively, and, on occasion, warmly affecting. - -New Yorker Christopher Hallowell is a skillful writer on natural history. --Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review The sprawling marshland of the lower Mississippi has spawned one of the most interesting indigenous cultures in all America--the Cajuns. Since the eighteenth century, they have clung to their ways, including their remarkable French-based patois, their deep love of the land and water around them, their world-famous cuisine, and their enviable love of life. Along with his affectionate and lyrical portrait of the people he came to know, Christopher Hallowell provides a history of the region, its geology, its settlement, and the efforts of land speculators and oil companies to develop it. People of the Bayou is a haunting record of a place in transition--another corner of American culture facing assimilation into the mainstream, a way of life that may be gone before we know it.
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Art by Joe Deffes. Very Good. No Jacket. pp. 141. 13600 shelf. Gold-stamped soiled white cloth w/ lightly soiled green bds. No names, clean text. No dust jacket. Solid.
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Deffes, Joe. Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xii, 141pp., ill., map. Fine in VG but price-clipped DJ. "The sprawling marshland of the lower Mississippi has spawned one of the most interesting indigenous cultures in all America-the Cajuns. Since the eighteenth century, they have clung to their ways, including their remarkable French-based patois, their deep love of the land and water around them, their world-famous cuisine, and their enviable love of life...A gifted historian, Mr. Hallowell adds a novelist's feeling for the nuances of individual character to this haunting record of a place in transition-another fresh corner of American culture facing assimilation into the mainstream, a way of life that may be gone before we know it."
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0525177280. Lower corners bumped. Binding & pages clean. DJ bright, clean. Just a bit of bumping to lower corners.; ARH12A; 141 pages.
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