Bayou Farewell
The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
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4.6 • 5 Ratings
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Publisher 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 exposé, Bayou Farewell is the richly evocative chronicle of the author's travels through a world that is vanishing before our eyes.
Customer Reviews
Cajuns can read
I'm from Louisiana. While I didn't grow up on the coast, my father's family is Cajun and I had Cajun French speaking grandparents. I read this book as part of a conservation biology class at LSU and I truly enjoyed reading this book. It is somewhat accurate of its depiction of Cajuns (a vast majority are not so poor nor as illiterate) but the attitude about the land and family are very close to home. Louisiana does have many problems ahead in terms of the coastline and that is pretty accurately depicted. Great read overall. I highly recommend with the caveat that the "Cajuns" depicted are not the norm across Louisiana.