The Book Merchant

Louisiana Interests

Encyclopedia of Cajun and Creole Cuisine
Chef John Folse

A sumptuous book of 840 pages of color photographs on nearly every page with special emphasis on the unique cultures of the Creoles and Cajuns. Over 700 easy-to-follow recipes from ancient classics inspired by Native American and African customs to more traditional ones influenced by French, Spanish, German, English, and Italian settlers. An incredible volume weighing in at 10 lbs.

$49.95

Natchitoches and Louisiana's Timeless Cane River
Photographs by Philip Gould
Text by Richard Seale, Robert DeBlieux, and Harlan Mark Guidry

Creole Houses: Traditional Houses of Old Louisiana

$39.95

$35.00

America's Wetland - Louisiana's Vanishing Coast

Isecial Knapp

Zydeco Shoes - A Sensory Tour of Cajun Culture

Paintings: Earl Hebert & Music CD: The Luckey Playboys

$39.95

Louisiana Houses of
A. Hays Town
Text by Cyril E. Vetter
Photographs by Philip Gould

Photographs of over 2 dozen homes designed by the architect who changed the face of architecture in Louisiana.

Copies signed by photographer available

COTTON: A Pictoral History

Harris Brown

Travel from the end of World War II to the new millenium, from land preparation to the gin, and from the East to the West coasts. Vivid color photography.

$45.00

$39.95

The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Douglas Brinkley

Yé Yaille, Chere!
Traditional Cajun Dance Music
Collected, Transcribed, and Annotated by Raymond E. Francois

$17.95 (paperback)

$40.00

Cajun Music and Zydeco
Photographs by Philip Gould

Louisiana Faces: Images From a Renaissance
Photographs by Philip Gould
Text by Jason Berry

$39.95

$39.95

Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon
Chance Harvey

The Man Behind The Voice
Jim Hawthorne

$24.95

$29.95 (Hardcover w/CD)

Obituary Cocktail:
The Great Saloons of New Orleans
Kerri McCaffety

A photographic essay and a history. You've probably had your bottom on many of the chairs or stools in these watering holes. A beauty of a book!

Back of the Big House:
The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
John Michael Vlach

$39.95

$27.50 (paperback)

Little Altars Everywhere
Rebecca Wells

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Rebecca Wells

Novel set in fictitious Louisiana town (but very reminiscent of Alexandria, LA). Sequel to Little Alters Everywhere.

$13.95 (paperback)

$14.00 (paperback)

French, Cajun, Creole, Houma - A Primer on Francophone Louisiana

Carl A. Brasseaux

An examination of the impact of French immigration on Louisiana over the past three centuries.

Common Routes: St. Dominque - Louisiana

Pricilla Lawrence

$19.95

$36.00

Louisiana Cowboys

Bill Jones

$39.95


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	Natchitoches and Louisiana's Timeless Cane River Photographs by Philip Gould Text by Richard Seale, Robert DeBlieux, and Harlan Mark Guidry		Creole Houses: Traditional Houses of Old Louisiana
$39.95		$35.00

	The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast Douglas Brinkley		Yé Yaille, Chere! Traditional Cajun Dance Music Collected, Transcribed, and Annotated by Raymond E. Francois
$17.95 (paperback)		$40.00

	Cajun Music and Zydeco Photographs by Philip Gould		Louisiana Faces: Images From a Renaissance Photographs by Philip Gould Text by Jason Berry
$39.95		$39.95

	Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon Chance Harvey		The Man Behind The Voice Jim Hawthorne
$24.95		$29.95 (Hardcover w/CD)