Orleans Embrace with The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carre | 
 enlarge | Authors: Tj Fisher, Roy F. Guste
Creator: Louis Sahuc
Publisher: Morgana Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 310875
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 388
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5
Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 10.4 x 1.3
ISBN: 0977351475
Dewey Decimal Number: 712.60976335
EAN: 9780977351473
ASIN: 0977351475
Publication Date: April 1, 2007
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Product Description
100% of publisher profits will be donated to French Quarter preservation groups Revisit the timeless mystery, magic, and majesty of the French Quarter and its legendary gardens with this lush collection of photographs. An emotional narrative about the heart and soul of New Orleans and the city’s ability to triumph over sorrow accompanies hundreds of pictures taken before and after the life- and landscape-altering Hurricane Katrina; a special section presents the classic work The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré, which offers mesmerizing images of the verdant gardens concealed behind brick walls and iron gates in the Quarter. The importance of fundraising for and conscientious rebuilding of New Orleans is stressed throughout the book, making this a gorgeous book—with a purpose.
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A current yet timeless book February 17, 2008
This beautiful book with a purpose deserves the 10 national awards it has won. It is poetic, haunting, poignant and touching. The prose and the pictures transport you to another place. Anyone who loves New Orleans will not want to miss having this book on his or her coffee table! But read it, too! The author won the PMA Benjamin Franklin Award 2007 for "Best New Voice Nonfiction" and the book also won the "Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book." A treat for all the senses, the eyes and the heart.
Will prove to be of immense interest May 8, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
No ordinary coffee table photography book, "Orleans Embrace With The Secret Gardens Of The Vieux Carre" is a 388-page memoir of the New Orleans French Quarter featuring 49 historic black-and-white photographs and 320 full color illustrations. While the overall book draws from the previous work of Roy F. Guste, Jr., the photographs by Louis Sahuc are bonded with a personal and compelling narrative text by T. J. Fisher. Readers will encounter a work originally intended to be of local interest, but in a post-Katrina world, has emerged with universal attraction as a memorial and a motivation to restore a once great American city to its unique and original glory. Enthusiastically recommended, "Orleans Embrace With The Secret Gardens Of The Vieux Carre" will prove to be of immense interest to several categories of readership including: gardening enthusiasts, historians, architects, photographers, and anyone who has every walked along the avenues and admired the parks, gardens, and buildings of the New Orleans French Quarter.
Special Book to Treasure April 23, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
WOW...what a big beautiful book! For anyone who has a connection to New Orleans...buy it...give it...treasure it...well written, throughly researched, amazing photos and layout...sure to be an award winner! Thanks for putting your heart into this volume!
AMAZING BOOK! April 2, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book: it is a passionate "love song" dedicated to New Orleans. The photos and text will tug at your heartstrings.
Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? April 2, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Read this book. Highly recommended.
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