Down on the batture

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.

subjects: Social life and customs,  Environmental conditions,  Description and travel,  Community life,  Travel,  Biography,  United states, social life and customs,  United states, description and travel,  Louisiana, biography,  United states, environmental conditions

People: Oliver A. Houck

Places: Louisiana,  New Orleans Region (La.),  New Orleans Region,  Mississippi River Region