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Louisiana sojourns : travelers' tales and literary journeys / as recounted by John James Audubon ... [and others] ; Frank de Caro, editor ; Rosan Augusta Jordan, associate editor.
LIBRA F369 .L896 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs.
- Louisiana--Description and travel.
- Louisiana.
- Louisiana--Social life and customs.
- Travelers' writings, American.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 581 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- A sweeping collection of observations and episodes penned by visitors to Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the 1990s, Louisiana Sojourns is-much like the state itself-a wonder to behold. The seventy-six pieces that Frank de Caro has selected give readers a vivid sense of how Louisiana's unique blend of Old World, South, the exotic, and quin-tessential America has exerted a pull and hold on travelers. Included are writings by well-known figures such as Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, Frederick Law Olmsted, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, John James Audubon, Calvin Trillin, Zora Neale Hurston, A. J. Liebling, William Least Heat Moon, and Frederick Turner. Dozens of other wayfarers are represented as well.
- Contents:
- The Importance of Passing Through: Traveler Writers in Louisiana 1
- 1 American Nile: The River 11
- Discovering the Mississippi's Mouth / Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca 14
- Vive le Roi: La Salle Reaches the Mississippi's Mouth / Jacques de la Metairie 16
- A Near Ambush / Jean Bernard Bossu 19
- Entrance of the Mississippi / Frances Trollope 21
- Waiting for a Boat / Sir Charles Lyell 24
- Steamboat Accommodations / Frederick Law Olmsted 26
- Gambling on the River / George Devol 31
- Castles and Plantations / Mark Twain 35
- The 1927 Flood / Lyle Saxon 38
- Show-Boat / Kent Lighty, Margaret Lighty 46
- Canoeing the Mississippi / Eddy L. Harris 51
- The Invisible Corridor / B. C. Hall, C. T. Wood 54
- 2 A Splendid Bedlam of a City: New Orleans 69
- New Orleans in the 1760s / Philip Pittman 73
- Where Human Life Can Be Enjoyed / William Darby 77
- Congo Square / Benjamin Latrobe 78
- Parrots, Spider-Monkeys, and Sun Umbrellas / Arthur Singleton 80
- The Levee / Donald MacDonald 81
- Rain and Mosquitoes / A. Oakey Hall 82
- The French Quarter / George Augustus Sala 86
- The French Market / Will H. Coleman 89
- Episode / William Faulkner 94
- Real Jazz / Simone de Beauvoir 97
- In the Quarter / Walker Percy 104
- New Orleans / Joy Harjo 107
- Between Trains / George F. Scheer III 110
- Travel Update 118
- 3 A Haunting Thing: Plantation Realms 129
- A Visit to Valcour Aime Plantation / Eliza Ripley 134
- St. James Parish Plantations / W. H. Russell 139
- Magnolia Plantation / Edward King 147
- Plantation Life in Southern Louisiana / Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg 151
- "The Shadows" / Henry Miller 155
- Weighing and Paying / Richard Schweid 168
- 4 Telling the Story of Our Lives: The African American Presence 185
- The Runaway / John James Audubon 189
- Slave Markets / Fredrika Bremer 195
- Fear of a Slave Uprising / Charles Cesar Robin 200
- How the Slaves Celebrate Christmas / Solomon Northup 201
- The Cheerleaders / John Steinbeck 207
- A Certain Meeting South / Sherwood Anderson 218
- Free People of Color / Frederick Law Olmsted 226
- The Quadroon Ball / The Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach 229
- The Quadroon Ballroom / Frederick Turner 231
- 5 Never So Many Travel Accounts: The War 241
- New Orleans, Just After Secession / W. H. Russell 244
- Fleeing the Yankees / Eliza McHatton-Ripley 246
- A Very Swarthy and Travel-Stained Warrior / James K. Hosmer 249
- Christmas at Marksville / Joseph P. Blessington 258
- Taking the Oath / Sarah Morgan Dawson 261
- 6 Land Picturesque and Fertile: Cajun Country 273
- The Acadian Coast / Charles Cesar Robin 278
- Acadians / Frederick Law Olmsted 280
- A Tour of the Acadian Country / Alcee Fortier 282
- The Fais Do Do at Mamou / Emily Kimbrough 293
- Cajun Music / William Least Heat Moon 300
- South of the South / Frederick Turner 305
- 7 Red Clay Hills and Piney-Woods: Central and North Louisiana 323
- The Post of the Ouachita / Charles Cesar Robin 327
- Crossing Central Louisiana / Amos A. Parker 331
- Manner in Which the Survey Was Made / Samuel H. Lockett 337
- Nothing But a Little Pissant / A.J. Liebling 350
- 8 Where All Things Seem to Dream: Bayou, Marsh, Coast 371
- A World Apart / Ben Lucian Burman 375
- Moss Pickers of the Lafourche Interior / Carolyn Ramsey 381
- Dance of the Oyster Luggers / Christopher Hallowell 393
- Cruising the Marshes and Coast / Matilda Charlotte Houstoun 399
- Grand Isle / Charles Tenney Jackson 405
- Sailing to Cheniere Caminada / Kate Chopin 412
- 9 Sportsman's Paradise: Wildlife and the Natural Environment 419
- Ibis-Shooting in Louisiana / Anonymous 424
- Alligator Hunting / Clifton Johnson 433
- In the Louisiana Canebrakes / Theodore Roosevelt 438
- On the Road with John James Audubon / Mary Durant, Michael Harwood 448
- Traveling on the Natural and Scenic Streams System / C. C. Lockwood 455
- 10 Cowboy's Shangri-La: Festivals, Feasts, and Other Diversions 475
- A Journey Through Mardi Gras / Lyle Saxon 480
- Country Mardi Gras / Harnett T. Kane 496
- A Cockfight / Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg 500
- Bonfires on the Levee / Hope J. Norman 506
- An Attempt to Compile the Definitive History of Didee's Restaurant / Calvin Trillin 509
- 11 The World of the Spirits 525
- Holy Week / Benjamin Latrobe 528
- Cities of the Dead / A. Oakey Hall 532
- The Element of True African Worship / Fredrika Bremer 534
- A Voodoo Dance / Charles Dudley Warner 538
- A Voodoo Initiation / Zora Neale Hurston 545.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0807122394
- 0807122408
- OCLC:
- 38096953
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