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Product Name:
ATCHAFALAYA HOUSEBOAT: MY YEARS IN THE LOUISIANA SWAMP (HC) |
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| Product ID:
9780807130896 |
| Category:
Biographies and Memoirs |
| Price:
$22.95 |
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Description:
Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp
Gwen Roland
In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people—Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin—decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana’s million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a book called How to Build Your Home in the Woods, they drew up plans to recycle a slave-built structure into a houseboat. Without power tools or building experience they constructed a floating dwelling complete with a brick fireplace. Towed deep into the sleepy waters of Bloody Bayou, it was their home for eight years. This is the tale of the not-so-simple life they made together—days spent fishing, trading, making wine, growing food, and growing up—told by Gwen with grace, economy, and eloquence. |
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