Full name: Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast

Author: Mike Tidwell Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Travel, Science Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375725173 0375725172

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 expose, Bayou Farewell is the richly evocative chronicle of the author's travels through a world that is vanishing before our eyes. Similar books: From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez Underland by Robert Macfarlane The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis One River by Wade Davis Sextant by David Barrie The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace Orchid Fever by Eric Hansen On the Map by Simon Garfield Travels of William Bartram by William Bartram Atlantic by Simon Winchester The Great Arc by John Keay The Fruit Hunters by Adam Leith Gollner The Geek Atlas by John Graham-Cumming The Magnetic North by Sara Wheeler At Home by Bill Bryson The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Skyfaring by Mark Vanhoenacker The Pine Barrens by John McPhee Color by Victoria Finlay