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River Road Rambler - A Curious Traveler along Louisiana's Historic Byway (Hardcover)
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River Road Rambler - A Curious Traveler along Louisiana's Historic Byway (Hardcover)
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List price R651
Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
You Save R116 (18%)
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The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a
fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. Author Mary Ann
Sternberg has spent over two decades exploring this richly historic
corridor, uncovering intriguing and often underappreciated places.
In River Road Rambler, she presents fifteen sketches about sites
along this scenic route. From familiar stops, such as the National
Hansen s Disease Center Museum at Carville, with its octogenarian
guide, and the sui generis perique tobacco area of St. James Parish
to the less well-noted yet highly distinctive Our Lady of Lourdes
grotto in Convent and the gradually disappearing Colonial Sugars
Historic District, Sternberg presents a new perspective on some of
the region s most colorful places. While many of the places remain
easily accessible to any River Road rambler, Sternberg also
presents others closed to the public, giving armchair travelers an
introduction to these otherwise unreachable attractions.
Throughout, Sternberg captures the ambiance of her surroundings
with a clear, engaging, and sometimes quirky examination of the
relationships between past and present. In a poignant piece on the
Valcour Aime garden, for example, she delves into the history of
this lavish, nationally acclaimed planter s garden, created and
abandoned in the mid-nineteenth century. Her visit to the now
private and protected site, which has never been altered or
replanted since its origins, reveals an extraordinary landscape the
relic of what Valcour Aime created, slowly overwhelmed by nature.
The essay-like stories brim with insights and observations about
everything from the fire that razed The Cottage plantation to the
failed attempts to salvage the reproduction of the seventeenth
century French warship Le Pelican from the bottom of the
Mississippi. River Road Rambler takes us along to River Road
treasures, linking us to both past and present and bringing some
delightful and unexpected surprises in the process.
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