The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans by Lawrence N. Powell

The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

Lawrence N. Powell

422 pages paperback 2012

2 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This is the story of a city that shouldn't exist. In the seventeenth century, what is now America's most beguiling metropolis was nothing more than a swamp: prone to flooding, infested with snakes, battered by hurricanes. But through the intense i...

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