Description
The Cajun coast of Louisiana is home to a way of life as unique, complex, and beautiful as the terrain itself. As award-winning travel writer Mike Tidwell journeys through the bayou, he introduces us to the food and the language, the shrimp fisherman, the Houma Indians, and the rich cultural history that makes it unlike any other place in the world. But seeing the skeletons of oak trees killed by the salinity of the groundwater, and whole cemeteries sinking into swampland and out of sight, Tidwell also explains why each introduction may be a farewell--as the storied Louisiana coast steadily erodes into the Gulf of Mexico.
Part travelogue, part environmental expos , Bayou Farewell is the richly evocative chronicle of the author's travels through a world that is vanishing before our eyes.Author: Mike Tidwell
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/09/2004
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.36w x 0.79d
ISBN13: 9780375725173
ISBN10: 0375725172
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Travel | United States | South | West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
- Nature | Ecosystems & Habitats | Coastal Regions & Shorelines
About the Author
Mike Tidwell is the author of four previous books, including In the Mountains of Heaven, Amazon Stranger, and The Ponds of Kalambayi. A former National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Tidwell has published his work in National Geographic Traveler, Reader's Digest, Washingtonian, and many other publications. His frequent travel articles for the The Washington Post have earned him four Lowell Thomas Awards, the highest prize in American travel journalism. He lives near Washington, D.C., with his wife, Catherine, and their son, Sasha.