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Secret Louisiana

BookPaperback
Ranking8161inReiseführer
CHF29.90

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The smallest church in the world, a tree where old shoes promise to unburden your soul, a family home built from found objects such as window shutters, trampolines, and eight waterpark slides, the grave of married dogs, the only example of congo style architecture built by African Americans, one of the finest examples of folk art in the world built by one man on the side of a bayou, ancient Native American objects whose purpose is unknown, the one-time capital of Texas, one of the most humorous "battles" of World War II, millions of years old fossils on the side of a highway, the site of the finest wedding ever to take place in the South, the world's largest bald cypress tree...
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ISBN/GTIN978-2-36195-675-2
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publishing date15/07/2024
Edition1. A.
Pages288 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 105 mm, Height 190 mm
Article no.50100924
Publisher's article no.51000166
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.44678792
Product groupReiseführer
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Author

Chris Champagne is a graduate of the Orleans Parish School system and of the University of New Orleans with a BA in History. He is a writer, performer, poet, comedian, political satirist, radio show host and columnist who has performed his work on stages all over the Greater New Orleans area. He was voted one of 144 New Orleans Characters in 2012 and was voted best comedian in New Orleans in 2013 and 2014. He was a member of National Poetry Slam teams in San Francisco in 1993 and Chicago in 1999. He received artists' residencies from the Alliance of Artists in 2006 and The College of Santa Fe in 2008. Chris is the author of the poetry book Roach Opera {Portals Press 2007}, and The Yat Dictionary [Lavender Ink, 2013}, a book on the dialect spoken by native Orleanians. His family on both sides has resided in New Orleans continuously since the first half of the 18th century.