Fry Macon They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans 9781496833075

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Автор: Fry Macon
Название: They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans
ISBN: 9781496833075
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Региональная и национальная история

История Америк

Этнические исследования

Экология

Охрана окружающей среды

ISBN-10: 1496833074
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 232
Вес: 0.48 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2021
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 73 black & white illustrations
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 1.47 cm
Ключевые слова: Conservation of the environment,Ethnic studies,Regional & national history,The environment, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists,HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR,
Подзаголовок: The last batture settlement of new orleans
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shanty-boats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisianas most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of River Rats living in a vestigial colony of twelve camps on New Orleanss river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.
Дополнительное описание: Ethnic studies|The environment|Conservation of the environment|General and world history

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans, Fry Macon