81 Best New Orleans Travel Guide Books of All Time

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide New Orleans

DK Eyewitness

5.0
Explore the busy streets of New Orleans, including the French Quarter and Bourbon Street, see where to get the best beignets and hurricanes, and find the best places to shop.

Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New Orleans .

- Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance.
- Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights.
- Floor plans and guided visitor informat
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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

Andrei Codrescu

5.0
For two decades NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted city, where, as he puts it, the official language is dreams. How apt that a refugee born in Transylvania found his home in a place where vampires roam the streets and voodoo queens live around the corner; where cemeteries are the most popular picnic spots, the ghosts of poets, prostitutes, and pirates
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Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas

Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker

4.9
Like the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices, including geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city's remarkable musicians, prison act
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Lonely Planet New Orleans

Lonely Planet, Adam Karlin, et al.

4.9
Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher*

Lonely Planet's New Orleans is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Take the St Charles streetcar past grand homes and enormous oaks, catch some jazz on Frenchmen St and search out po'boy perfection - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart
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French Quarter Manual: An Architectural Guide To New Orleans' Vieux Carrڳe

Malcolm Heard

4.9
In New Orleans, the French Quarter packs itself into a little grid of a colonial town behind the levee of the Mississippi River. Established in 1718, the town received its gridded plan from a French military engineer in 1721. Most of the buildings standing today date from the nineteenth century, with eighteenth and twentieth century structures interspersed.

This detailed architectural handbook desc
Walking New Orleans: 30 Tours Exploring Historic Neighborhoods, Waterfront Districts, Culinary and Music Corridors, and Recreational Wonderlands book cover6

Walking New Orleans: 30 Tours Exploring Historic Neighborhoods, Waterfront Districts, Culinary and Music Corridors, and Recreational Wonderlands

Barri Bronston

4.9
From neighborhoods such as Lakeview and Mid-City to landmarks including the Saenger Theater and Mercedes Benz Superdome, from its restaurants and music clubs to its parks and museums, the Big Easy has regained the title of one of the world’s most fascinating cities. In Walking New Orleans, lifelong resident and writer Barri Bronston shares the love of her hometown through 30 self-guided tours that
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Frommer's Easyguide to New Orleans 2019

Diana K. Schwam

4.9
Few cities anywhere are as vibrant, historically rich, and just plain fun as New Orleans. But it's not a "dummy proof" destination. Too many travelers leave town wondering what all the fuss is about.

That doesn't happen to those carrying this book. Written by frequent Frommer author and journalist, Diana K. Schwam, Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans 2019 introduces travelers to the experiences othe
Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases--San Francisco, New Orleans, New York book cover8

Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases--San Francisco, New Orleans, New York

Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, et al.

4.9
"The maps themselves are things of beauty."
--The New York Times

Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas. From Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.

In the past decade, Rebecca Solnit--aided by local writers, artists, historians, urbanists, ethnographers, and cartographers--has compiled
Fear Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Voodoo, Vampires, Graveyards Ghosts of the Crescent City book cover9

Fear Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Voodoo, Vampires, Graveyards Ghosts of the Crescent City

Michael Murphy and Anne Rice

4.8
Fear Dat New Orleans explores the eccentric and often macabre dark corners of America’s most unique city. In addition to detailed histories of bizarre burials, ghastly murders, and the greatest concentration of haunted places in America, Fear Dat features a “bone watcher’s guide” with useful directions of who’s buried where, from Marie Laveau to Ruthie the Duck Girl. You’ll also find where to buy
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New Orleans (Wildsam Field Guide, #5)

Taylor Bruce and Scott Campbell

4.8
From publisher's website:

The magic of New Orleans is more than the romance – the mornings in the Quarter and afternoons in the Garden District. Rebirth at the Maple Leaf and John Boutte at dba. And the wonderfully rich culinary heritage of Creole, Cajun and Southern cuisines. But to know New Orleans, one must also know its complicated wounds. The forgotten neighborhoods. Its swollen prisons. The
New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape book cover11

New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape

Peirce F. Lewis

4.8
In his now classic work of historical geography, published in 1976, Lewis traces the rise and expansion of New Orleans through four major historic periods. This second edition offers a revised and greatly expanded look at this unique community on the Mississippi Delta---a fearsome place, difficult enough for buildiing houses, lunacy for wharves and skyscrapers.-
Gary Rivlin portrait Recommended by Gary Rivlin.
Eat Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Unique Food Culture of the Crescent City book cover12

Eat Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Unique Food Culture of the Crescent City

Michael Murphy

4.8
When Mario Batali was asked his favorite food city, he responded, “New Orleans, hands down.” No city has as many signature dishes, from gumbo and beignets to pralines and po' boys, from muffuletta and Oysters Rockefeller to king cake and red beans and rice (every Monday night), all of which draw nearly 9 million hungry tourists to the city each year.


In this fully revised and updated new edition, E
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Fodor's New Orleans

Fodor's Travel Guides

4.8
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Why New Orleans Matters

Tom Piazza

4.8
Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which can bring a smile to the face of someone who has never even set foot there?

What is the meaning of a p
Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip: Natchez Trace Parkway, Memphis, Tupelo, Mississippi Blues Trail book cover15

Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip: Natchez Trace Parkway, Memphis, Tupelo, Mississippi Blues Trail

Margaret Littman

4.8
Hit the Road with Moon Travel Guides!

From Music City to the Big Easy, cruise through the heart of the South along the verdant Natchez Trace Parkway. Inside Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip you'll find:
Maps and Driving Tools: 24 easy-to-use maps keep you oriented on and off the parkway, along with site-to-site mileage, driving times, and detailed directions for the entire route

Eat, Sleep, St
Day Trips from New Orleans: Getaways Less than Two Hours Away book cover16

Day Trips from New Orleans: Getaways Less than Two Hours Away

James Gaffney

4.8
Day Trips RM guides take travelers to dozens of wonderful destinations with attractions ranging from museums and arboretums to theme parks and micro-breweries. They also include all pertinent information on dining, shopping, and even lodging, should readers decide to really play hooky!Listings for each day trip will be fully updated in each new edition, including what to see and do and where to ea
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Top 10 New Orleans

DK Eyewitness

4.8
An unbeatable, pocket-sized guide to New Orleans, packed with insider tips and ideas, colour maps, top 10 lists and a laminated pull-out map, all designed to help you see the very best of New Orleans.

Visit the unique stores at Royal Street, engage in fun-filled activities at the New Orleans City Park, enjoy the vibrant carnival scenes at Mardi Gras, dine at the upscale restaurants at Canal Street
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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?

David Rutledge, Jason Berry, Toni McGee Causey, Colleen Mondor, Sarah K. Inman, Dar Wolnik, Ray Shea, C. W. Cannon, Craig Mod

4.8

This beautifully designed hardcover book starts with a line of cars leaving the city ahead of Hurricane Katrina and ends in a mad Mardi Gras romp. The book winds through the streets of New Orleans toward a deeper understanding of just what this great, wounded city means to the United States. Many of the essays in this collection were composed by writers trying to piece their lives together in the

Drink Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Best Cocktail Bars, Neighborhood Pubs, and All-Night Dives book cover19

Drink Dat New Orleans: A Guide to the Best Cocktail Bars, Neighborhood Pubs, and All-Night Dives

Elizabeth Pearce and Michael Murphy

4.8
New Orleans is an American city unlike any other, and its rich diversity is reflected in the world-class bar scene. In Drink Dat New Orleans, Elizabeth Pearce takes us on a tour of the city’s many unforgettable drinking spots, including a candle-lit tavern favored by pirates in the early eighteenth century and a watering hole so beloved by locals that several urns containing the ashes of former pa
In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar book cover20

In Exile: The History and Lore Surrounding New Orleans Gay Culture and Its Oldest Gay Bar

Frank Perez

4.8
“A perfect reflection of the French Quarter, In Exile brings history to piquant, steamy, and always-fascinating life. The Quarter is a place like no other, and with the publication of In Exile, there's now a book about its history like no other.”
—Rick R. Reed, award-winning author of Caregiver

“A true look into New Orleans Gay History and Café Lafitte’s role in it.”
—Ken GranPré, General Manger Woo
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A Guide to the Historic French Quarter

Andy Peter Antippas

4.8
Local author Andy Peter Antippas presents a walking history of the Vieux Carre, one alley, corner and street at a time.


Walking through the French Quarter can overwhelm the senses--and the imagination. The experience is much more meaningful with knowledge of the area's colorful history. For instance, the infamous 1890 "separate but equal" legal doctrine justifying racial segregation was upheld by t
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Lonely Planet Pocket New Orleans

Lonely Planet, Adam Karlin, et al.

4.8
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher

Lonely Planet's Pocket New Orleans is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. March with a brass band through the French Quarter, eat everything from jambalaya to beignets, and take a walking tour past the Garden District's plantation-style mansions - all with your
Randolph Delehanty's Ultimate Guide to New Orleans book cover23

Randolph Delehanty's Ultimate Guide to New Orleans

Randolph Delehanty

4.8
111 Places in New Orleans That You Must Not Miss book cover24

111 Places in New Orleans That You Must Not Miss

Michael Murphy and Sally Asher

4.8
• Go off the beaten path to discover the hidden places, stories, and neighborhoods that reveal New Orleans' true character, history, and flavor
• The ultimate insider's guide to New Orleans
• Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
• Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 150 titles and 1 million copies in print worldwide
• Appeals to bot
Lonely Planet World Food New Orleans: Creole, Cajun & Soul book cover25

Lonely Planet World Food New Orleans: Creole, Cajun & Soul

Pableaux Johnson

4.8
The texts in this series offer recipes, cuisine highlights maps, and regional and city maps. As well as containing explorations of regional influences and traditional cooking they provide guides to markets, dining out and celebrating in each country plus a cuisine dictionary.
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MapEasy's Guidemap to New Orleans

MapEasy

4.8
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Time Out New Orleans

Time Out

4.8
Local writers cover every inch of the Big Easy, from Bourbon Street to Mardi Gras, in this exciting guide. Authoritative reviews profile Creole and Cajun cooking in depth, from crawfish étoufée to gumbo file. The full gamut of nightlife in this city that never sleeps is covered: bars, bowling alleys, arenas, clubs, Cajun venues, zydeco haunts, and more. Here too are such tantalizing diversions as
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Knopf Mapguide: New Orleans

Knopf Guides

4.8
Here is Knopf’s unique pocket-size MapGuide to the historic city of New Orleans: with six full-color, fold-out street maps of the most popular neighborhoods, plus bus, rail, and streetcar maps, as well as carefully selected information about the essential places to go and things to do.

Here are the city’s most interesting destinations, from the Garden District to the French Quarter to the Warehouse
Your Own Personal New Orleans Tour (Travel Guide): Seven Things You Must Do To Have A Fabulous Time In The Crescent City -- A Guide For Visitors and Locals Alike book cover29

Your Own Personal New Orleans Tour (Travel Guide): Seven Things You Must Do To Have A Fabulous Time In The Crescent City -- A Guide For Visitors and Locals Alike

Richard Bienvenu

4.8
Who Else Wants to Have a Fabulous Time in New Orleans?

NEW ORLEANS is a city like no other. Over the centuries it's been sung about and written about as this mysterious, dream-like place almost magical in its effect on people.

RICHARD BIENVENU, author and New Orleans musician, was born and raised in New Orleans so knows the city intimately. He maintains a blog, Notes On New Orleans.net, as a celebra
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Plantations & Historic Homes of New Orleans

Jan Arrigo

4.8
Hurricane Katrina ravaged much of New Orleans in 2005, but thankfully the city’s most treasured historic homes survived. Plantations & Historic Homes of New Orleans is a poignant tribute of these storied mansions, whose architectural beauty brings a unique flair to the Big Easy’s most famous neighborhoods.

From the French Quarter and Garden District to Uptown, Marigny, and Bayou St. John, many of N
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New Orleans Architecture: The Cemeteries

Leonard Huber

4.8
"Quite possibly the most comprehensive architectural examination of any American city."
-Landscape Architecture Magazine

"The tourist who does not visit at least one of the old cemeteries just a few blocks from the French Quarter misses an inimitable experience in sepulchral urban design."
-St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In New Orleans, cemeteries are known as "cities of the dead." Because the city is locate
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The National Trust Guide to New Orleans

Roulhac Toledano

4.7
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The Definitive Guide to the Architectural and Cultural Treasures ofOne of North America's Most Beloved Cities

The National Trust Guide to New Orleans is an indispensableresource for tourists, armchair travelers, architects, and anyoneconcerned with the preservation of one of the world's mostfascinating cities. From the cast iron ornamentation in the FrenchQuarter to the s
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New Orleans (Images of America: Louisiana)

Eric J. Brock

4.7
Few cities boast a heritage as rich and a local color as dynamic as that of New Orleans. Known the world round for its unique architecture, exquisite cuisine, flamboyant celebrations, and exotic peoples, New Orleans is a place where many cultures met and harmonized to create a city, and a lifestyle, unlike any other in America. Founded in 1718 as a backwater outpost of France, New Orleans was the
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The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans

Susan Larson

4.7
This guide includes a history of the fiction writers, journalists, poets, critics and others who have been associated with New Orleans. It also includes a tour of author's homes and hangouts, a reading list of New Orleans titles in categories from mysteries to cooking; and a list of bookshops.
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Below Sea Level

Jane Foster

4.7
'With compassion and insight, Jane Foster examines how a perfectly happy family is pulled apart, not by the challenge of raising a young family far away from home, but by alcoholism. Leaving her husband in Tokyo and escaping back home to New Orleans with her children, thinking there is no other way but out, old friends show Lila that there is still hope if only she can learn to pray. Because when
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COMPASS American Guides: New Orleans

Bethany E. Bultman

4.7
Fodor's Compass New Orleans 4ed.

Created by local writers and photographers, Compass American Guides are the ultimate insider's guides, providing in-depth coverage of the history, culture, and character of America's most spectacular destinations. Covering everything there is to see and do as well as choice lodging and dining, these gorgeous full-color guides are perfect for new and longtime residen

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Fabulous New Orleans

Lyle Saxon, E. H. Suydam

4.7
Saxon's accounts include Mardi Gras as seen through the eyes of a boy and a brief history of the city.
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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story

Julia Reed

4.7
Julia Reed went to New Orleans in 1991 to cover the reelection of former (and currently incarcerated) governor Edwin Edwards. Seduced by the city's sauntering pace, its rich flavors and exotic atmosphere, she was never entirely able to leave again. After almost fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, she got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. Fo
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New Orleans on the Half-Shell: A Native's Guide to the Crescent City

James Taylor

4.7
The ultimate out-of-the-way New Orleans guide. Sassily written with an emphasis on sticking to a budget.
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Insight Guides: New Orleans

Martha Ellen Zenfell

4.7
A travel series unlike any other, Insight Guides go beyond the sights and into reality. Their incomparable photojournalistic approach captures the uniqueness of each culture they cover: their traditions, their arts, their history, their lives. The stunning photography is married to compelling text, written by local writers; the people most qualified to convey their culture's "secrets".Yes, Insight
The Eclectic Gourmet Guide to New Orleans, 2nd book cover41

The Eclectic Gourmet Guide to New Orleans, 2nd

Tom Fitzmorris

4.7
Easy to read ratings for quality and value help locals and tourists avoid dining disappointments and overpriced restaurants as they discover the city's best dining establishments.
Voyage to New Orleans book cover42

Voyage to New Orleans

John Clark

4.7
Haunted City—Updated: An Unauthorized Guide to the Magical, Magnificent New Orleans of Anne Rice book cover43

Haunted City—Updated: An Unauthorized Guide to the Magical, Magnificent New Orleans of Anne Rice

Joy Dickinson

4.7
Take a walk with Lestat, Louis, Claudia, and the Mayfair Witches.New Orleans is one of America's most romandc and mysterious cities. Its steamy climate and languid air; its cultural gumbo of Catholicism and voodoo, French past, and Creole present; its celebrated corruption, cuisine, and cemeteries -- all combine to make the Crescent City a magical place. A magic enhanced by Anne Rice's Vampire chr
Queen New Orleans: City by the River book cover44

Queen New Orleans: City by the River

Harnett T. Kane

4.7
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Secret New Orleans

Chris Champagne

4.7
Houses built to resemble riverboats, the finest business hall in the world, a meteorite in a golf course, a back alley that serves as a portal of the voodoo afterwold, a 1960's time capsule, a house made of 1200 glass ashtrays, Lee Harvey Oswald forgotten Commemorative Plate, a secret doll museum on the second floor of a private house, the largest religious work of art on canvas in the world... Fa
All Dat New Orleans: Eating, Drinking, Listening to Music, Exploring, Celebrating in the Crescent City book cover46

All Dat New Orleans: Eating, Drinking, Listening to Music, Exploring, Celebrating in the Crescent City

Michael Murphy

4.7
For New Orleans’ 300th Anniversary in 2018, when millions will travel to the city to celebrate, Michael Murphy presents his fifth book about his adopted and beloved home. But with a booming tourism industry and boundless local culture, knowing where to start in New Orleans can be as difficult as packing up to leave. In addition to selected material from Murphy’s Eat Dat, Fear Dat, and Hear Dat, br
Signature Tastes of New Orleans: Favorite Recipes from Our Local Restaurants book cover47

Signature Tastes of New Orleans: Favorite Recipes from Our Local Restaurants

Steven W. Siler

4.7
From the hidden treasures tucked away in Treme to sweeping panoramic views overlooking the Mississippi River, these are sights, tastes and stories of our favorite restaurants. With over 70 restaurant recipes, historic photos and trivia about the city, the range of amazing food that is uniquely New Orleans is showcased. Enjoy the secret recipes from Commander's Palace, Cafe Du Monde and many, many
Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans 2020 book cover48

Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans 2020

Diana K. Schwam

4.7
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Voodoo in New Orleans

Robert Tallant

4.7
"Interesting investigation and straightforward handling of sensational times and tricksters, of the cult of voodooism in all its manifestations. From its first known appearances in New Orleans of 200 years ago, here are the fetishes and formulae, the rites and dances, the cures, charms and gris-gris. Here were the witch-doctors and queens, and in particular Doctor John, who acquired fame and fortu
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New Orleans

Jan Arrigo

4.7
Stunning architecture. An exciting mix of colorful cultures. Dixieland jazz and zydeco. Heritage celebrated proudly in countless parades and music festivals. Crawfish and jambalaya. It’s all this and more about "The Big Easy" that induces pride in residents and attracts more than eight million tourists each year. The spirit of the city comes alive in the pictorial guide New Orleans. Informative ca
Greater Than a Tourist- New Orleans Louisiana USA: 50 Travel Tips from a Local book cover51

Greater Than a Tourist- New Orleans Louisiana USA: 50 Travel Tips from a Local

Julie A. Sullivan, Lisa Rusczyk Ed. D., et al.

4.7
Are you excited about planning your next trip?
Do you want to try something new?
Would you like some guidance from a local?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you.
Greater Than a Tourist- New Orleans USA by Julie A. Sullivan offers the inside scoop on New Orleans. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is not
Michelin Green Guide Short Stays New Orleans book cover52

Michelin Green Guide Short Stays New Orleans

Michelin

4.7
Sitting on a bend of the Mississippi River, "Crescent City" is an intoxicating blend of people and cultures. The New Orleans weekend guide covers the best things to do in this most seductive of cities, with a focus on maximizing your time. Michelin's star ratings recommend the most interesting sights for every neighborhood and excursion, atmospheric places to stay, incomparable local eateries and
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Literary New Orleans

Judy Long

4.7
The definitive literary portrait of the capital of Southern belles lettres including illuminating vignettes of fact and fiction. New Orleans is a melting pot that has been stirred by French, Spanish, African, and Caribbean influences. From the labyrinthine cobblestone streets of the Vieux Carre, the sombre elegance of the Garden District, and the bayous and banks of the Mississippi River to the ab
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New Orleans & the River Road: 30 Postcards

Richard Sexton

4.6
Designed in our new, gatefold postcard book format, the collection of these stunning images of the Crescent City are the elegant antidote to the typical throwaway souvenirs This book of thirty evocative postcards capture how southern Louisiana's unique history has left its indelible mark on the magical city of New Orleans and the plantations of its outlying River Road. Showcasing the region's most
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Frommer's New Orleans 2009

Mary Herczog

4.6
America's #1 bestselling travel series Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, Frommer's Complete Guides help travelers experience places the way locals do.


More annually updated guides than any other series Outspoken opinions, exact prices, and suggested itineraries Dozens of detailed maps in an easy-to-read, two-color design
Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Journey Through the Cities of the Dead book cover56

Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Journey Through the Cities of the Dead

Jan Arrigo

4.6
Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Journey through the Cities of the Dead is a photographic tour of the city’s captivating graveyards. Glorious photographs accompanied by interesting captions showcase more than fifteen of New Orleans’s historic and fascinating cemeteries (or ""cities of the dead""), such as St. Louis #1, Greenwood, St. Roch, Lafayette, and bayou and plantation country cemeteries. This i
The Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago, 2nd: A Travel and Music Guide book cover57

The Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago, 2nd: A Travel and Music Guide

Richard Knight

4.6
The Blues Highway is a classic road trip through the cradle of musical innovation in America. This definitive travel and music guide follows Highway 61 and the Mississippi River to explore the roots of jazz, blues, Cajun, zydeco, country, gospel, soul, and rock & roll music. Trace the story from Congo Square in New Orleans to down-home Delta blues joints then on to Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis, D
National Geographic Traveler: New Orleans book cover58

National Geographic Traveler: New Orleans

Mark Miller

4.6
National Geographic offers a century of incomparable travel expertise to the high end of the travel market with this extraordinary series of world tours. These information-packed guides offer savvy advice and the in-depth information that sophisticated travelers demand. Each guide features: Detailed background and site descriptions; mapped walking and driving tours; full-service sidebars with fasc
Hungry? Thirsty? New Orleans: The Lowdown on Where the Real People Eat and Drink! book cover59

Hungry? Thirsty? New Orleans: The Lowdown on Where the Real People Eat and Drink!

Ian McNulty

4.6
Hurricanes, po'boys, crawfish, oh my! New Orleans wrote the book on delicious, intensely local food and the unending happy hour. Drive-thru daiquiri shop, anyone? Readers will know where to get the best and pay the least in the City That Care Forgot.
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New Orleans Jazz (Images of America: Louisiana)

Edward J. Branley

4.6
From the days when Buddy Bolden would blow his cornet to attract an audience from one New Orleans park to another, to the brass bands in clubs and on the streets today, jazz in New Orleans has been about simple things: getting people to snap their fingers, tap their toes, get up and clap their hands, and most importantly dance! From the 1890s to World War I, from uptown to Faubourg Treme and out t
New Orleans (American Guide Series.) book cover61

New Orleans (American Guide Series.)

Federal Writers Project

4.6
In 1938, under the direction of novelist and historian Lyle Saxon, The Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration produced this delightfully detailed portrait of New Orleans. Containing recipes, photographs and folklore, it is consistently hailed as one of the best books produced about the city. Remarkably, many of the sites and attractions the WPA chronicled in 1938 are still a
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Orleans Embrace with The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré

TJ Fisher

4.5
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 la
Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans book cover63

Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans

Roy Blount Jr.

4.5
“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”

So writ
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New Orleans - A City Named Desire

April Fell

4.5
Todd and April Fell have lived in New Orleans since the 70s. They created a travel book called 'The Vignette' which was published until 1987. In this book Todd has woven his striking photographs, with the paintings, drawings and historic photos, that he selected from the city's rich archives of the past. April has tried to create images, with stories from the city's history, culture and lifestyle,
The Unofficial Guide to New Orleans book cover65

The Unofficial Guide to New Orleans

Eve Zibart

4.5
The famous festivals of New Orleans continue to draw crowds back to the city: nearly 400,000 attended the Jazz Festival in 2007, and the French Quarter festival drew nearly half a million. The brand new (2007) Harrah's New Orleans hotel has been named one of the top 100 in the United States by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler, and visitors can look forward to the re-opening of the Hyatt Regency
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The Bachelor in New Orleans

Robert Kinney, Eugenia Riley, et al.

4.5
French Quarter bohemians designed The Bachelor in New Orleans as an unauthorized guidebook before unauthorized guidebooks. Over forty marvelous block prints illustrate a remarkably jaunty text, delivering a portrait of New Orleans nightlife unlike any other. Restored from the original 1942 lithographs and set in full color, this is the quintessential book for any bachelor about to dive into the ol
America's Historic Trails with Tom Bodett book cover67

America's Historic Trails with Tom Bodett

Tele-record Productions

4.5
Quakers and later Mormons seeking religious freedom ... homesteaders looking for more land in untamed Kentucky or Oregon ... gold seekers in 1598, and in 1898: all left their stories and their marks on the American landscape. These colorful characters, their strength and triumphs, are recalled in this richly told history with dozens of evocative drawings and photos. Detailed maps and travel advice
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Day Trips® from New Orleans, 2nd

James Gaffney

4.5
From Gulf Coast beaches to magnificent plantations, this guide offers more than 25 excursions for travelers seeking a minivacation within a two-hour drive of New Orleans. Includes directions, suggestions for places to eat and stay, and recommended itineraries.
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Fodor's New Orleans 2010 (Fodor's Gold Guides)

Fodor's

4.5
Fodor’s. For Choice Travel Experiences.

Fodor’s helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insightful tools you need to experience the trips you want. Although you’re at the helm, Fodor’s offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It’s like having a friend in New Orleans!

•Updated annually, Fodor’s
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Access New Orleans (Access New Orleans, 4th Ed)

Constance Snow and Richard Saul Wurman and Kenneth Snow

4.5
The 25 detailed neighborhood maps in this guide will help you immediately locate the hotels, restaurants, shops, and sight of New Orleans.
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Fabulous Frenchtown;: The story of the famous French Quarter of New Orleans

Ernest G Vetter

4.5
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Frommer's New Orleans 2010

Mary Herczog

4.5
Completely updated every year, "Frommer's New Orleans" features a full rundown of the unique experiences that await you.Our author hits all the highlights, from the French Quarter to the Garden District to Mid-City and beyond. She's checked out all the city's best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes an
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New Orleans

Tom Downs

4.5
Get back to the Big Easy, baby Always unique, New Orleans is on the rebound with its gumbo pot of eclectic arts, legendary live music, Southern hospitality and unbeatable cuisine. Our longtime New Orleans author ladles out tips on how best to savor this essential, historic American city.
Find Your Fest - someone's always celebrating in America's festival city - our special Mardi Gras & Jazz Fest c
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to New Orleans

Jones

4.5

c Quick & Easy Guidance so your customers will have more time to enjoy their trips and less time to rummage through pages of useless information. Heavy use of dynamic icons, maps, and indexes expertly developed by our Frommer's travel staff. c Idiot-Proof Instructions so your customer will know when to go where and why, all without the stress of wondering, "Will I get burned?" c Down-to-Earth Advi

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Berlitz New Orleans Pocket Guide

Inc. Berlitz International

4.4
With over 40 million copies sold worldwide, Berlitz Pocket Guides have been long renowned for their ease of use and portability by booksellers and travelers alike. Redesigned and updated, Pocket Guides continue to provide a world of information for travel at any budget -- and still fit into a pocket. Each guide includes:
-- New foreign language and cultural tips featured in sidebar columns
-- Updat
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Access New Orleans

Access Press

4.4
With Access New Orleans, your visit will be an easy, enjoyable experience -- the hot, sultry city's exotic thrills, illicit temptations, and delightful excesses are laid out for your pleasure.

New Orleans has been divided and organized into neighborhoods, so you know where you are and where you're headed.

Unique color-coded and numbered entries allow you to discover the best:

hotels • restaurants • A
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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to New Orleans

Guy Leblanc

4.4
Looking for a travel guide that goes where other guides fear to tread? One that rides roughshod over ad-copy puffery to smartly deliver the real scoop on a destination's sites and attractions? One that dares to be honest, hip, and fun? Look no more. Frommer's Irreverent Travel Guides are wickedly irreverent, unabashedly honest, and downright hilarious, and provide an insider's perspective on which
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Frommer's Portable New Orleans

Mary Herczog

4.4
For this portable guide the author, a New Orleans resident, has chronicled the city's post-Katrina devastation and resurrection, with full information on what neighborhoods have rebounded and what establishments are open for business. Coverage of hotels, sights and transport options will help visitors enjoy their stay.
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New Orleans: Its Old Houses, Shops and Public Buildings

Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis

4.4
“The composite face of New Orleans is an old face and a young face, worn, and some think repellent, in places, but fair and sweet and good to look upon in others. But whether worn or fresh it is an interesting face, a face of charm and character.” So wrote Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis in New Orleans: Its Old Houses, Shops and Public Buildings, his influential documentary study of New Orleans’ histor
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The Mini Rough Guide to New Orleans

Sam Cook

4.4
This Mini Rough Guide makes the Crescent City easy. with inside info on one of America's most romantic and exotic destination. You'll find local cuisine -- from beignets and po'boys to erouffee and oysters -- and innovative activities in and around the city. Whether you seek New Orleans' rich heritage or its partying present, this is the ultimate way co say, "laissez les bons temps rouler "
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Enchanting New Orleans

Illinois Central Railroad

4.4