Finding Travel Books About New Orleans

Travel Books About the History of New Orleans

To speak of New Orleans without mentioning the famous Vieux Carre (French Quarter) borders on the sacrilegious – which is why “The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld” makes it a point to talk about it from the perspective of Herbert Asbury. Text goes well with photographs.

Travel Books About the People of New Orleans

You don’t often find 81-year-old authors nowadays but Elaine Lacoste is and she wrote “Street Names & Picayune Histories of New Orleans”. Her book is actually a continuation of her lifelong hobby of digging up the history behind street names in New Orleans where she has been a life-long resident.