Download or read book Along the River Road written by Mary Ann Sternberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked destinations. Featuring background information about the area and a detailed guided tour -- upriver on the east bank and downriver along the west -- the book gives an overview of the River Road, serving as an accessible and definitive companion to exploring the corridor. Sternberg's abiding appreciation of the area's allure, garnered over twenty years, produces a must-have travel companion to a place that far exceeds its common reputation as only a parade of elegant antebellum mansions. In this new edition, she again encourages travelers to experience the many treasures of this wondrous byway for themselves, so they too can see how much it has changed over the past decade.
Download or read book Reports and Documents written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vestiges of Grandeur written by and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an evocative sequel to the acclaimed "New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, " Sexton returns with an in-depth visual journey through the hidden mansions--some inhabited, many now long abandoned--of Louisiana's River Road. 200+ color photos.
Download or read book Project Development Report for the Great River Road written by Minnesota. Department of Transportation. Transportation Services Division and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Public Roads written by United States. Bureau of Public Roads and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book River Road Recipes written by Junior League of Baton Rouge and published by Favorite Recipes Press (FRP). This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This community cookbook with over 1.2 million copies sold is considered by most to be the textbook of Louisiana cuisine. Cajun, Creole, and Deep South flavors are richly preserved in authentic gumbos, jambalayas, courts-bouillons, pralines, and more. Inducted into the McIlhenny Hall of Fame, an award given for book sales that exceed 100,000 copies
Download or read book 1973 Highway Legislation Future Highway Needs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers H.R. 5573, H.R. 5138, S. 502.
Download or read book Mississippi River Ramble written by Herb Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi River Ramble-Driving the Great River Road is a thirty day trip in a motorhome up the Great River Road National Scenic Byway from the small town of Venice, Louisiana, some eighty miles downriver from New Orleans, to Bemidji, Minnesota, over a thousand miles upriver. Enjoy the ride over hill and dale through picturesque scenery, enchanting historical small towns with names such as Bad Axe, Elsah, Genoa, Keokuk, Little Falls, New Madrid, Quincy, Red Wing, and Victory. Explore superlative larger cities, such as Minneapolis/St. Paul, New Orleans, and St. Louis. Enjoy the often lighthearted recollections of motor coach sightseeing trips of local attractions, such as the Crayfish Festival at Breaux Bridges, Louisiana; Mardi Gras, French Quarter, and Oak Alley Plantation in New Orleans; the Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi; Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley; Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther was assassinated, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee; the St. Louis Arch, and the Budweiser Clydesdale Horses in St. Louis, the boyhood home of Mark Twain in Hannibal, Missouri; the Mormon Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois; Amana Colonies in Iowa; the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa; and the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Take pleasure in, and chuckle a bit with Herb Williams' fifth book and the first in a series covering his travels throughout the United States.
Download or read book Laws relating to the National Park Service written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drawing Louisiana s New Map written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past 50 years, coastal Louisiana has suffered catastrophic land loss due to both natural and human causes. This loss has increased storm vulnerability and amplified risks to lives, property, and economies-a fact underscored by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Drawing Louisiana's New Map reviews a restoration plan proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Louisiana, finding that, although the individual projects in the study are scientifically sound, there should be more and larger scale projects that provide a comprehensive approach to addressing land loss over such a large area. More importantly, the study should be guided by a detailed map of the expected future landscape of coastal Louisiana that is developed from agreed upon goals for the region and the nation.
Download or read book Report written by United States. Army. Office of the Chief of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 2048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Chief of Engineers written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 2060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Blue Clay of the Mississippi River written by George Little and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1973 Highway Legislation Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Transportation 93 1 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Control of Nature written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where words etched in limestone said: "Strive on--the control of Nature is won, not given." In the morning sunlight, that central phrase--"the control of nature"--seemed to sparkle with unintended ambiguity. Bilateral, symmetrical, it could with equal speed travel in opposite directions. For some years, he had been planning a book about places in the world where people have been engaged in all-out battles with nature, about (in the words of the book itself) "any struggle against natural forces--heroic or venal, rash or well advised--when human beings conscript themselves to fight against the earth, to take what is not given, to rout the destroying enemy, to surround the base of Mt. Olympus demanding and expecting the surrender of the gods." His interest had first been sparked when he went into the Atchafalaya--the largest river swamp in North America--and had learned that virtually all of its waters were metered and rationed by a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project called Old River Control. In the natural cycles of the Mississippi's deltaic plain, the time had come for the Mississippi to change course, to shift its mouth more than a hundred miles and go down the Atchafalaya, one of its distributary branches. The United States could not afford that--for New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and all the industries that lie between would be cut off from river commerce with the rest of the nation. At a place called Old River, the Corps therefore had built a great fortress--part dam, part valve--to restrain the flow of the Atchafalaya and compel the Mississippi to stay where it is. In Iceland, in 1973, an island split open without warning and huge volumes of lava began moving in the direction of a harbor scarcely half a mile away. It was not only Iceland's premier fishing port (accounting for a large percentage of Iceland's export economy) but it was also the only harbor along the nation's southern coast. As the lava threatened to fill the harbor and wipe it out, a physicist named Thorbjorn Sigurgeirsson suggested a way to fight against the flowing red rock--initiating an all-out endeavor unique in human history. On the big island of Hawaii, one of the world's two must eruptive hot spots, people are not unmindful of the Icelandic example. McPhee went to Hawaii to talk with them and to walk beside the edges of a molten lake and incandescent rivers. Some of the more expensive real estate in Los Angeles is up against mountains that are rising and disintegrating as rapidly as any in the world. After a complex coincidence of natural events, boulders will flow out of these mountains like fish eggs, mixed with mud, sand, and smaller rocks in a cascading mass known as debris flow. Plucking up trees and cars, bursting through doors and windows, filling up houses to their eaves, debris flows threaten the lives of people living in and near Los Angeles' famous canyons. At extraordinary expense the city has built a hundred and fifty stadium-like basins in a daring effort to catch the debris. Taking us deep into these contested territories, McPhee details the strategies and tactics through which people attempt to control nature. Most striking in his vivid depiction of the main contestants: nature in complex and awesome guises, and those who would attempt to wrest control from her--stubborn, often ingenious, and always arresting characters.
Download or read book Report of the Chief of Engineers U S Army written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .
