Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers' Tales and Literary Journeys by Caro, Frank De

Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers' Tales and Literary Journeys (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780807122396)

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Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers' Tales and Literary Journeys by Caro, Frank De

Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers' Tales and Literary Journeys

$49.95
Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers' Tales and Literary Journeys by Caro, Frank De

Louisiana Sojourns: Travelers' Tales and Literary Journeys

$49.95
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping collection of observations and episodes penned by visitors to Louisiana from the sixteenth century to the 1990s, Louisiana Sojourns is--much like the state itself--a wonder to behold in its sum, and in its particulars, full of surprise and delight. The seventy-six pieces that Frank A. de Caro has selected give readers a vivid sense of how Louisiana's unique blend of Old World, South, the exotic, and quintessential America has exerted a pull and hold on travelers. Included are writings by well-known figures such as Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, Frederick Law Olmsted, Walker Percy, William Faulkner, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry Miller, John James Audubon, Calvin Trillin, Zora Neale Hurston, A. J. Liebling, William Least Heat Moon, and Frederick Turner. Dozens of other wayfarers are represented as well.

Author: Frank De Caro
ISBN-10: 0807122394
ISBN-13: 9780807122396
Publisher: LSU Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/1998
Pages: 608
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.58h x 6.59w x 1.75d
By Frank De Caro
By Frank De Caro
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Frank A. de Caro was a professor emeritus of English at Louisiana State University, where he taught for thirty-four years. A former president of the Louisiana Folklore Society and the first chairman of the Louisiana Folklife Commission, he was the author or editor of several books, including Re-Situating Folklore: Folk Contexts and Twentieth-Century Literature and Art, coauthored by Rosan Augusta Jordan. He lived in New Orleans.

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