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

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

Review They Called Us River Rats, a labor of love more than two decades in the making, is many things-memoir, natural history, geography, cultural and political history-but above all it is an effort to redeem a way of life that exists under perpetual threat of annihilation. As the batture goes, so goes New Orleans. -- Nathaniel Rich - The New York Review of Books They Called Us River Rats is a beautiful addition to Mississippi River history and lore, told with Fry