[PDF.47tx] Vestiges of Grandeur: Plantations of Louisiana's River Road

Vestiges of Grandeur: Plantations of Louisiana's River Road

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 | #420508 in Books |  Chronicle Books |  1999-10-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.25 x1.10 x10.25l,3.60 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Outstanding study of River Road plantation history|By Jon L Albee|This is no ordinary picture book. It's a complete history of River Road plantation life, told with engaging depth, startling photography, and profound cultural insight. It is a narrative study, every bit an exercise in sociology as in history and architecture.

This book is so good it's hard to know w|From Library Journal|In 1716 John Law, in what McCaffety calls a "real-estate scam," persuaded the Duc d'Orleans to sell shares for a French settlement. A flood wiped out the settlement in the first year, but the colonists continued to come. By the mid-19th cent

In an evocative sequel to the acclaimed New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, author and photographer Richard Sexton returns with an in-depth visual journey through the hidden mansions—some inhabited, many now long abandoned—of Louisiana's River Road. Bordering the Mississippi, these antebellum landmarks were once the epitome of gracious living in the Deep South. Over the past century, these grand dwellings have slowly succumbed to time, humidity, and...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Vestiges of Grandeur: Plantations of Louisiana's River Road   |  Richard Sexton, Eugene Cizek. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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