The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

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How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history—only to realize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begun



With a long and colorful circle of relatives history of defying storms, the seafaring Robin cousins of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, make a fateful decision to ride out Hurricane Katrina on their hand-built fishing boats in a sheltered Civil War–era harbor known as Violet Canal.  But when Violet is overrun by killer surges, the Robins will have to summon all their courage, seamanship, and cunning to save themselves and the scores of others cast into their care.

 

In this gripping saga, Louisiana native Ken Wells provides a close-up take a look at the harrowing experiences in the backwaters of New Orleans all over and after Katrina. Specializing in the plight of the intrepid Robin circle of relatives, whose members trace their local roots to before the American Revolution, Wells recounts the landfall of the storm and the tumultuous seventy-two hours afterward, when the Robins’ beloved bayou country lay catastrophically flooded and all but forgotten by out of doors authorities as the world focused its attention on New Orleans. Wells follows his characters for more than two years as they strive, amid mind-boggling wreckage and governmental fecklessness, to rebuild their shattered lives. This can be a story about the deep eager for home and a proud bayou people’s love of the fertile but imperiled low country that has nourished them.

 

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