French Louisiana / New France

[cloudyday]

Can anyone recommend any book(s) discussing/set in/about French Louisiana / New France, up to and around it's hand over to/colonisation by the US? I'm looking for anything really, preferably not too dry. Thanks.

 

[marshall]

Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but 'Bayou Farewell', Mike Tidwell was a really interesting read. And I was brought there by James Lee Burke's crime novels set around New Iberia, and his description of the unique environment, and American-Spanish-French-African-Creole culture.

 

[cloudyday]

thanks marshall that looks great, i'll put it on my list.

 

[Serge Forward]

James Lee Burke has written some decent books.

 

[marshall]

He has, but then I’m a sucker for that Southern Noir/Grit Lit crime fiction, his descriptions of the bayou/wetlands are very seductive; would love to tour the area one day. I’ll give the fried catfish a miss though.

 

[Jay Park]

He has, but then I’m a sucker for that Southern Noir/Grit Lit crime fiction, his descriptions of the bayou/wetlands are very seductive; would love to tour the area one day. I’ll give the fried catfish a miss though.

catfish is delicious

 

[marshall]

catfish is delicious

Seriously? Don't they have whiskers?

 

[Jay Park]

Seriously? Don't they have whiskers?

You don't eat it's face bro. Very fleshy, very white, thicker meat than cod/haddock/whatever.

 

[marshall]

Good point, and I do like cod/haddock, you win, I'll give it a go.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Catfish is better than almost anything out of the North Sea

 

[Chilli.s]

Thanks all for the pointer to J L Burke, getting stuck into 1st Robicheaux book now.

I've enjoyed Tim Gautreaux books, fiction, Louisiana swampy river stories set in the twenties.

 

[Serge Forward]

Burke also did a trio of decent non genre but polutically leftish novels in his earlier works - not Louisianna related though.

 

[dessiato]

You don't eat it's face bro. Very fleshy, very white, thicker meat than cod/haddock/whatever.

But a very different flavour. I like it with blackening.

 

[Epona]

I love catfish