Atchafalaya Houseboat

You know how a friend will recommend a book, and you really enjoy it, then your friend stays one jump ahead of you and recommends another book related to the first, and this one suddenly becomes one of your favorite books of all times? Well, that’s the way it is with “Atchafalaya Houseboat” and me. I can’t thank my friend Louis enough for introducing me to the engaging literature of life on the rivers and in the swamps of America.

“Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp” by Gwen Roland, Louisiana State University Press 2006, ISBN 9780807130896, Hard cover, 161 pages, $22.95