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They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans Audiobook, by Macon Fry Play Audiobook Sample

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans Audiobook

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans Audiobook, by Macon Fry Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Adam Barr Publisher: Tantor Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.00 hours at 1.5x Speed 3.75 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: February 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781666192582

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

41:42 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

03:58 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

26:18 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

1

Publisher Description

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously 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.

Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana's most powerful politicians.

Today Fry is among the senior generation of "River Rats" living in a vestigial colony of twelve "camps" on New Orleans's river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.

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