Best New Orleans Louisiana Travel Books
Harnett T. Kane encapsulates the leading touristic images of New Orleans born during the interwar years.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Hawk identifies with the Gang members but still can’t excuse bad acts."
"A typical Spenser book -- not a disappointment!"
"An exceptional history of New Orleans from the vantage of a native living in the 1940's."
"Love this author and book."
"Third time was the charm."
"Hawk and Spencer tackle inner city gang/drug issues."
"Great story and as much tongue-in-cheek humor as jusual."
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Find Best Price at Amazon"They are great for a small area."
"I really like this series of maps, but don't think about using it to walk around town."
"Map Easy products are fun to use when travelling."
"LOVELY, heavy duty map of NOLA."
"This map is cute and handy with a lot of interesting places to visit included."
"These are my favorite walking maps for any city!"
"Not a very good map."
For two decades Npr commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. In this lovely collection of very short essays (many two pages long), gravelly voiced NPR commentator Codrescu sketches finely honed portraits of a fabled city and its equally fabled inhabitants.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"If I had never visited New Orleans prior to reading New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings From the City , I would have made my way there as soon as I finished. But this blues now is just too big New Orleans is my favorite city to visit in literature. New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings From the City reminded me why New Orleans is and always will be my favorite city."
"A wonderful collection of essays about New Orleans spanning 2 decades from the mid-80s up to post-Katrina today where "the American dream came unmoored..." Codrescu is one of my favorite poets and essayists he doesn't fail to deliver here. Codrescu continually employs apt and often humorous metaphors in his writing - there is no short supply of these here..."New Orleans cemeteries look like vast bakeries quietly holding the ancestral loaves. I highly recomend this book for those interested in a fine collection of short essays with a one-of-a-kind take on perhaps the most unique of all American cities."
"This is a collection of essays that he's written over a twenty year period about his adopted city of New Orleans, and it is a marvelous read."
"If Codrescu wanted to include writing about Katrina and it's aftermath, why leave that for the final few pages?"
"Great collection of stories."
"i call it the last holdout of personal freedom left in homogenized USA. the smells, the history, the oddballs (thank goodness)....it's all right here for ur pleasure."
Best General Louisiana Travel Guides
The next day he began to photograph, house by house: "All the places I went in, the doors were just open. Amidst all this, Polidori has found something worth saving, has created mementos for those who could not return, documenting the paradoxically beautiful wreckage. Oversize photos capture the stark reality: whole neighborhoods under water and later in shambles, and close-ups of sodden bedrooms, mud-scoured kitchens and painterly mold spores.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"It is as if his books on Havana and Chernobyl were mere foretastes to this exceptional and moving work, and certainly anyone who has seen these two books came away with a feeling of the power and storytelling that Polidori's images can convey. In "After the Flood", he presents us with an almost encyclopedic presentation of the aftermath of the hurricane, flooding, wind, water and mud damage showing the fragility of our cities and the power of nature. The first images show parts of the city still under water and the receding water. Succeeding groups of images show the effects of mud, water and wind on buildings and cars that have been tossed around at random like toys."
"Ridiculous amazing amount of detail from this 8x10 photographer."
"These high quality photos come without captions."
"There are likely a thousand awesome photos in the book, but not the one I remember from the exhibition."
"This book captured the aftermath of the storm to its precise destruction."
"The best photographic essay of New Orleans after the flood."
"I bought this book as a gift for my sister-in-law."