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Title: Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast
ISBN: 0375725172
Author:
Mike Tidwell
Publicate Date: 2004-03-09
Publish: 2004-03-09
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: bayou farewell
this is a story about Louisiana's vanishing coastline that needed to be told. If a story like this doesn't get your attention, you don't appreciate what is happening to our best line of defense against hurricanes!
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2: Bayou Farewell
Yes i was very dissapointed with my purchase with Amazon.com! I ordered my book over two months ago and still have not yet received my order. I needed the book for my summer reading assignment for college. Because I did not recieve it in time to read it, I am not able to pass my college class. I will never again purchase a book i need online.
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3: No depth; nothing substantial
I flew through the book in about 2 hours. The author offers no real depth into the causes of the problems related to the sinking eroding bayou country. This is mostly a personal uninteresting account of travels through the area. If you want accurate well researched information related to the Mississippi and it's flood plain and delta, read Rising Tide by John Barry.
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4: One Summer's Day:
Sitting in a Plantation-Roker chair, on a wrap- around pourch ten-ft. off the groung below, gentile motion and the incoming sea-breeze's off the Gulf Coast at the edge of Biloxi Beach,Mississippi. Looking across the blue water of the bay so far till it touches the sky, framed in silhouette, the ever moving of fishermen and their shrimp-boats and small skiff-sails, darting back-n-forth. The Ole-House is post-war period 1800's southern design, with quarters in the back yard, and a rear entrance for delivery's. Our Bedroom is just behind me through a screen shuttered door's, with the orignal guillotine window's next to a Bolster- canopy bed. Full private bath to the side claw foot tub and pedistal sink's, window looking to our west onto the courtyard below and limbs extend up from the three-hundred yr. old oak tree...Aug.10,2004;Just-a-memory now!!! Thank's,Sully 08'.
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5: A Must Read
This book is a must read for all politicians, Louisianians, environmentalists, engineers and concerned citizens. The author does an exceptional job in portraying the life of families inhabiting Louisiana's coastline and the devastating impact the leveeing of the Mississippi river has had not only on the people who earn a living fishing these waters, but the devastation of this ecologically fragile zone. The loss of land to the ocean is staggering! The solutions are simple to implement (let the mississippi overflow its banks) but phenomenally costly. Do read this book and come to Louisiana to see a vanishing world.
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