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Amazon.com: Louisiana travel in Amazon.com Louisiana Off the Beaten Path, 8th (Off the Beaten Path Series)  Louisiana is a mecca for offbeat attractions, and this guide shows you the best. Have your picture taken with an alligator (or eat one); take a swamp cruise through the Venice of America; visit the Authentic Bonnie and Clyde Museum, and much more. Laissez les bonnes temps roulez! Author: Gay N. Martin Paperback: 208 pages Company: GPP Travel (2007-01-01) ISBN: 076274202X List Price: $13.95 Amazon Price: $5.71 Used Price: $5.36 50 Hikes in Louisiana: Walks, Hikes, and Backpacks in the Bayou State, First Edition  An all-new 50 Hikes guide to the surprisingly diverse hiking opportunities in Louisiana. Hikers can experience a surprising variety of habitats and terrains in Louisiana, ranging from piney woods in the west to bottomland hardwood along the Mississippi floodplain, to the picturesque swamps and marshes in the south. The state's varied habitats provide an ideal home for a wide array of flora and fauna, and its mild climate makes fall, winter, and spring excellent seasons for hiking. Louisiana is located along a prime corridor for migrating birds; as a result, many of the state's trails offer bird-watching opportunities for hikers. The hikes in this new guide range in length from ½ to 31 miles, from a casual stroll to a 3-4-day backpack. An overview chart makes it easy to choose a hike for every ability. Each hike description includes mile-by-mile directions, a topographic map, information on hiking time, mileage, and trail conditions, and knowledgeable commentary on the human and natural history you'll encounter along the way. 50 black & white photographs, 51 maps, index. Mobil Travel Guide South, 2005: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee (Mobil Travel Guide South (Al, Ar, Ky, La, Ms, Tn))  The Mobil Travel Guide star ratings are a 45-year-old consumer advocacy concept originally developed following the introduction of the interstate highway system. The goal of the Guide is not to identify and rate every property in the country, but to recommend only the best in each category, ones that we would send our customers to. We look at the stars from a consumer's point of view, rating lodgings and restaurants across North America from the perspective of the "average traveler."The Guides feature new enhanced descriptions for 2004. Listings include lodgings, restaurants, attractions, and events in established travel destinations, as well as cities and towns on the way to established travel destinations. Our new easy-to-use format makes the Guides even more indispensable to travelers. Each regional guide is organized alphabetically by state, with introductory information about the state followed by city listings in alphabetical order. For each city, the guide lists sites and attractions, lodgings, and then restaurants. One of the features that sets the Mobil Travel Guide apart from its competitors is its proprietary Mobil star rating system. Forty-five plus years of publishing experience and the oldest non-biased rating system in North America make the Mobil Travel Guide series a must-have for travelers wanting up-to-date ratings of hotels and restaurants. Author: Mobil Travel Guide Paperback: 458 pages Company: Mobil Travel Guide (2005-01-01) ISBN: 0762735899 List Price: $18.95 Amazon Price: Used Price: $0.75 Weird Louisiana: Your Travel Guide to the Pelican State's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets  Author: Roger Manley Hardcover: 272 pages Company: Sterling (2009-10-06) ISBN: 1402745540 List Price: $19.95 Amazon Price: $13.57 Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole  When nature exudes in a swamp in Louisiana it is rich, tropical, juicy, dark, verminy, repellant and lovely all in one," wrote Catharine Cole in 1889. "It is like a coffin crowned with flowers; a death trap baited with roses." Writing under the pseudonym Catharine Cole, Martha R. Field (1855-1898) became the first full-time newswoman for the New Orleans Daily Picayune in 1881. For more than a decade she was the woman's page editor and wrote a Sunday column, "Catharine Cole's Letter," that established her as one of the most popular writers in the South. Cole wrote fiction, essays, editorials on women's issues, and travel pieces. But her accounts of journeys through Louisiana's rural parishes by rail, steamboat, carriage, buggy, and on foot brought her writing to the state's working men and women as well as its plantation aristocracy. Louisiana Voyages: The Travel Writings of Catharine Cole gathers these travel writings for the first time. Touring most of Louisiana's parishes, taking in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Lafayette, Morgan City, and Grand Isle, Cole revealed in her journalism much about an exotic, unspoiled Louisiana and the Gilded Age South as a whole. A punishing 1,800-mile buggy trip through forests, swamps, bayous, and along the Gulf Coast made her a celebrity writer who, according to her contemporaries, "knew more about Louisiana than any other person alive." Joan B. McLaughlin is a retired associate professor of English at Clemson University. Her work has appeared in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Concerning Poetry, Arizona Quarterly, South Carolina Review, and other periodicals. Jack McLaughlin is a retired professor of English and humanities at Clemson University. He is the author of Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder and To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson: Letters to a President. Learn more about Catharine Cole at http://www.catharinecole.com/. Only in Louisiana: A Guide for the Adventurous Traveler  Author: Keith Odom Paperback: 128 pages Company: Quail Ridge Press (1994-12) ISBN: 0937552569 List Price: $6.95 Amazon Price: $3.25 Used Price: $4.52 Streetwise New Orleans Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of New Orleans, Louisiana - Folding pocket size travel map with streetcar & bus routes (National & International Titles)  Streetwise New Orleans Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of New Orleans, Louisiana - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated streetcar & bus lines with stationsThis map covers the following areas: Our pocket size map of New Orleans is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® New Orleans map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® New Orleans map today and you too can navigate New Orleans, Louisiana like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar. Gerstacker's Louisiana: Fiction And Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times Through Reconstruction  A global traveler and adventurer, the German author Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816?1872) first arrived in Louisiana in March 1838, paddling the waterways leading from the wilds of the northwestern part of the state near Shreveport south to cosmopolitan New Orleans. He returned to the state in 1842, living for a year in the areas of Bayou Sara, St. Francisville, and Pointe Coupée?then considered the most beautiful garden and plantation land along the Mississippi River. In 1867 he briefly visited Louisiana again, observing the devastation wrought by the Civil War and the turmoil of Reconstruction. No mere armchair tourist, Gerstäcker fully engaged himself in exploring Louisiana?its landscapes, peoples, and Peculiar Institution. He was in the unique position of being both an insider and an outsider, and his sojourns in the state served as the basis for travel books, short stories, and novels. Gerstäcker was a remarkable raconteur and a highly popular author. During his lifetime and beyond, his writings conveyed the tenor of southern life to a German-speaking audience. Now, compiled and translated into English by Irene S. Di Maio, they offer a window on nineteenth-century Louisiana across several decades of growth and upheaval. Gerstäcker?s aim as a writer was to inform and entertain, especially through humor, drama, and suspense. His works?including his fiction?sustain an almost ethnographic level of detail. The stories, travel sketches, and novel excerpts included here comment on slavery and its aftermath, ethnic and racial diversity, transcultural relations, and immigration and multilingualism. Gerstäcker?s impressions of Louisiana remain relevant and deeply engaging. AUTHOR BIO: Irene S. Di Maio is the author of The Multiple Perspective: Wilhelm Raabe?s Third-Person Narratives of the Braunschwieg Period. She is an associate professor of German at Louisiana State University. Louisiana: A Guide to the State (American Guide Series) Author: Federal Writers Project Hardcover: 746 pages Company: Scholarly Pr (2007-03-22) (2007-03-23) ISBN: 0403021693 List Price: $95.00 Amazon Price: $95.00 Used Price: $88.35 Gerstacker's Louisiana: Fiction And Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times Throug Author: Friedrich Gerstacker
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