People of the Bayou

by Christopher Hallowell and Christopher L. Hallowell

Book Overview

He thoroughly knows and respects his subject, and his writing is clean lively, and, on occasion, warmly affecting. - -New Yorker Christopher Hallowell is a skillful writer on natural history. --Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book Review The sprawling marshland of the lower Mississippi has spawned one of the most interesting indigenous cultures in all America--the Cajuns. Since the eighteenth century, they have clung to their ways, including their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525177280
• ISBN13: 9780525177289
• Release Date: October 1979
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A favorite

I discovered this book in the library at least 10 years ago and have reread it several times. Each Cajun family and the unique environment they live in is described in such rich and exact detail that I feel as though I'm right there beside them. The author does an equally good job in explaining how erosion is threatening their way of life and the health of this valuable and irreplaceable ecosystem. Out of concern for these people and the bayou, I've tried, unsuccessfully so far, to find a follow up to this book. It's a great read - personal but written with respect to the Cajuns and the bayou.