Savage Lands--Clare Clark
Historical fiction. Depiction of Louisiana before even New Orleans was an established city, so it's roughly the mid to late 1600's. Based on a factual event of when the King of France ordered representatives to send over young girls/women to be wives and companions of the men who had settled here, largely the French Acadiennes from Canada. Story is told mostly through the eyes of one of the women sent here. Has interesting details about life in the swamps--it will REALLY make you appreciative of the efforts it took to civilize the land here for normal habitation--and our relations with the native tribes from here up to about Illinois.
Island Beneath the Sea--Isabel Allende
Mostly historically accurate depiction of relatons b/t slave masters/overseers and slaves in the Antilles (modern day Haiti) and then their immigration to New Orleans. I'd give it 3 out of 4 stars
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