Weird Louisiana: Your Travel Guide to Louisiana's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

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Best Travel Series of The Year 2006 Booklist Your travel guide to the land of voodoo hoodoo and backwater bayous! Just hearing the name Louisiana is enough to conjure up all sorts of strange visions in ones imagination: haunted Old South plantations French Quarter mansions and white marble and limestone towers that house the dead. And of course theres Mardi Gras the most surreal and extravagant celebration in the country. Author Roger Manley (who caught a swamp monster in the bayous behind his familys home) knows and reveals everything about this state of the weird wacky and wonderful.