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People of the Bayou

A Anthropology, History book. Good anthropological study of the amazing marsh, bayou and swamp people (and critters)...

He thoroughly knows and respects his subject, and his writing is clean lively, and, on occasion, warmly affecting. --New YorkerChristopher Hallowell is a skillful writer on natural history. --Doris Grumbach, New York Times Book ReviewThe 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...

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  • Pages: 160 pages
  • ISBN: 9781589801127 / 1589801121
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