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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 27 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Adam Barr. |
| Summary |
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. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. 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 Louisiana's most powerful politicians. Today Fry is among the senior generation of "River Rats" living in a vestigial colony of twelve "camps" on New Orleans's 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. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Community life -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
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New Orleans Batture (La.)
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New Orleans (La.) -- History.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Social life and customs.
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New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Barr, Adam.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666192599 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666192597 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14747909 |
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