They Called Us River Rats. The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans, Paperback/Macon Fry

Presents the untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Author(s): Macon Fry Illustration(s): 73 b&w illustrations Number of pages: 232 Publication date: 2024 Dimensions: 150 x 229 x 18 Cover type: Paperback