Since the publication of Shantyboat: A River Way of Life in
1953, Harlan Hubbard achieved a wide reputation as a modern-day
Thoreau. Not content simply to advocate a life of simplicity and
self-sufficiency, Hubbard and his wife Anna in 1944 built with
their own hands a houseboat on the banks of the Ohio near
Cincinnati and in 1946 set out on a leisurely, five-year journey
down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Shantyboat, Hubbard's
recounting of their journey to New Orleans, and Payne Hollow: Life
on the Fringe of Society, his sequel telling of their life in a
corner of rural Kentucky after their return, won him a host of
readers.
Shantyboat on the Bayous is the middle chapter of the Hubbard
saga. It tells of Harlan and Anna's voyage of explorations into the
remote reaches of Louisiana. For more than a year after reaching
New Orleans, the Hubbards meandered through the lush Cajun country
on the Intracoastal Waterway, along Bayou Lafourche, thought the
marshes around Avery Island, and finally up the storied Bayou Teche
toward the farthest point of navigation.
The story of these travels, along with the author's
illustrations of the bayou country, offers a portrait of one of the
most unusual and least-known regions of our country and of the
people who inhabit it. In this book, the Hubbards once again
demonstrate their gift for living in simple and eloquent harmony
with the land. As Don Wallis notes in his foreword, Shantyboat on
the Bayous completes Hubbard's autobiography of "the life he shared
with Anna, self-created and self-sustained, difficult and joyful,
full of achievement and discovery, diligence, pleasure, and
reward."
Here is a jewel of a travel book, certain to be treasured by
Hubbard's many admirers and discovered by scores of new ones.
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