Last Days of Last Island: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana's First Great Storm by Bill Dixon

Last Days of Last Island: The Hurricane of 1856, Louisiana's First Great Storm

Bill Dixon

290 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
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The 1856 summer season was like so many that had come before – uneventful, idyllic. The South’s newest and most popular watering spot was a microcosm of Louisiana’s antebellum economic and social structure. More than four hundred vacationers—wealt...

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