They called us river rats : the last batture settlement of New Orleans / Macon Fry.
They called us river rats : the last batture settlement of New Orleans / Macon Fry.
They called us river rats : the last batture settlement of New Orleans / Macon Fry.
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Publisher
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
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G 2021/2149
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Prologue -- Chapter 1: The shack -- Chapter 2: Mile marker 104 -- Chapter 3: Becoming a river rat -- Chapter 4: Batture wilderness -- Chapter 5: Ghosts on the shore -- Chapter 6: American river -- Chapter 7: Shantyboat people -- Chapter 8: Broken levees, big shots, and bird men -- Chapter 9: Miracle...
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Publisher
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Place of Publication
Mississippi
Date Published
[2021]
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"They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone kno...
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They called us river rats : the last batture settlement of New Orleans / Macon Fry.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.
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©2021
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G 2021/2149
Record Identifier
74VKaL38BOMl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaL38BOMl
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ISBN
1496833074
9781496833075
DDC
976.335
MMS ID
991024428447802626
