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Atchafalaya Houseboat : My Years in the Louisiana Swamp by Gwen Roland; with photographs by C.C. Lockwood is a travel available to read on EtoBox.
What is Atchafalaya Houseboat : My Years in the Louisiana Swamp about?
In the early 1970s, two idealistic young people -- Gwen Carpenter Roland and Calvin Voisin -- decided to leave civilization and re-create the vanished simple life of their great-grandparents in the heart of Louisiana's million-acre Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp. Armed with a box of crayons and a book called How to Build Your Home in the Woods, they drew up plans to recycle a slave-built structure into a houseboat. Without power tools or building experience they constructed a floating dwelling co
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Gwen Roland; with photographs by C.C. Lockwood
- Publisher
- Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807130896
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Science, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.12 / 5 (238 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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