95 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
NEW ORLEANS TRAVEL GUIDE 2026/2027: The Complete Visitor's Guide to Food, Music, Festivals, Neighborhoods & Hidden Gems with Itineraries, Local Tips book cover2

NEW ORLEANS TRAVEL GUIDE 2026/2027: The Complete Visitor's Guide to Food, Music, Festivals, Neighborhoods & Hidden Gems with Itineraries, Local Tips

Yoconda Sierra

5.0

New Orleans is one of the most distinctive cities in the United States — culturally, architecturally, and culinarily unlike anywhere else in the country. It is also one of the most misunderstood. Most visitors arrive knowing Bourbon Street and Mardi Gras. This guide covers both, and considerably more besides.Organized across 19 chapters, the book moves from city orientation and neighborhood-by-nei

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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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New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

Andrei Codrescu

4.9
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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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
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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
New Orleans Classics: A Mardi Gras & Local-Inspired Coloring Book for Adults & Teens: Celebrate the Spirit of the Big Easy with the Art of Music, Culture, and Landmarks book cover7

New Orleans Classics: A Mardi Gras & Local-Inspired Coloring Book for Adults & Teens: Celebrate the Spirit of the Big Easy with the Art of Music, Culture, and Landmarks

Miles B Maxwell

4.9

Experience the Magic of New Orleans Through Art!Step into the lively streets of New Orleans with New Orleans Classics: A Mardi Gras & Local-Inspired Coloring Book great for adults and teens but suitable for all ages! Whether you love the energy of Mardi Gras, the soul of jazz music, or the historic beauty of the French Quarter, this book captures it all in stunning detail!Inside This Book, You’ll

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

Rebecca Solnit, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, et al.

4.8
"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
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FROM THE BLUE MOUNTAINS TO THE BAYOU - THE JAMAICAN EXPERIENCE

PATRICIA MEGHOO OBERLI

4.8

What happens when a Jamaican leaves the lush Blue Mountains for the mysterious bayous of Louisiana?In From the Blue Mountains to the Bayou: The Jamaican Experience, Patricia Meghoo Oberli invites readers on a heartfelt journey from the warmth of Jamaica to the vibrant culture of southern Louisiana.Through personal stories, reflections, and memorable encounters, she captures the excitement, surpris

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Frommer's Easyguide to New Orleans 2019

Diana K. Schwam

4.8
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
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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.
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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
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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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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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Haunted New Orleans: Ghosts of the Crescent City (Night Watch Archives)

Von Axle

4.8

New Orleans is America’s most haunted city, a place where jazz mingles with shadows and history walks hand-in-hand with the supernatural.In Haunted New Orleans: Ghosts of the Crescent City, author Von Axle unlocks the secrets of the French Quarter’s mist-filled streets, eerie cemeteries, and haunted mansions. Step inside St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, where the Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau still stirs the

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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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The New Orleans Bucket List: 100 offbeat adventures in the Crescent City

Loretta-Maria Adkins, David L. Sloan

4.8

Make Your New Orleans Vacation a Bucket-List Adventure with The New Orleans Bucket List by Local Expert Loretta-Maria Adkins!Don’t waste time with padded online reviews or guides written by people who don’t even live in New Orleans. Loretta-Maria Adkins, a true New Orleans local, brings you 100 offbeat, can’t-miss adventures in the Crescent City—all curated with insider knowledge, humor, and a sen

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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
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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
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 cover22

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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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

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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
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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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Randolph Delehanty's Ultimate Guide to New Orleans

Randolph Delehanty

4.8
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Discovering The Delta

Mr. James Chris Severson

4.8

An experienced geologist with years of study in sedimentology, Chris Severson shares his passion for the Delta at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Introduced to the Delta as a young adult, the author ventures into this wild and fascinating region for many, many years. The stories herein tell of adventure, mishaps and perils while giving a view into the beauty of the delta and a geologic picture

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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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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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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
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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
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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

4.7
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
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MapEasy's Guidemap to New Orleans

MapEasy

4.7
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New Orleans Architecture: The Cemeteries

Leonard Huber

4.7
"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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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
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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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Voyage to New Orleans

John Clark

4.7
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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.
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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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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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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
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Plantations & Historic Homes of New Orleans

Jan Arrigo

4.7
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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Queen New Orleans: City by the River

Harnett T. Kane

4.7
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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
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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
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Signature Tastes of New Orleans: Favorite Recipes from Our Local Restaurants

Steven W. Siler

4.6
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
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New Orleans

Jan Arrigo

4.6
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
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Greater Than a Tourist- New Orleans Louisiana USA: 50 Travel Tips from a Local

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

4.6
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
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Michelin Green Guide Short Stays New Orleans

Michelin

4.6
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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Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans 2020

Diana K. Schwam

4.6
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Voodoo in New Orleans

Robert Tallant

4.6
"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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Literary New Orleans

Judy Long

4.6
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
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Cemeteries of New Orleans: A Journey Through the Cities of the Dead

Jan Arrigo

4.5
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
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National Geographic Traveler: New Orleans

Mark Miller

4.5
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
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The Blues Highway: New Orleans to Chicago, 2nd: A Travel and Music Guide

Richard Knight

4.5
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
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Hungry? Thirsty? New Orleans: The Lowdown on Where the Real People Eat and Drink!

Ian McNulty

4.5
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 (American Guide Series.)

Federal Writers Project

4.5
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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New Orleans Jazz (Images of America: Louisiana)

Edward J. Branley

4.5
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
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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
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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,
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Haunted America Travel Guide 2025: Ghost Towns, Haunted Hotels, and Paranormal Hotspots

Pedro J. Smite

4.5

Haunted America Travel Guide 2025 – Your Ultimate Paranormal Adventure CompanionDid you know the United States is home to thousands of haunted sites, from eerie colonial towns and historic battlefields to abandoned hospitals and centuries-old cemeteries? Haunted America Travel Guide 2025 is your comprehensive companion for exploring the nation’s most chilling destinations, offering travelers an un

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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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French Quarter Food Tour

Three Oaks Publishing

4.4

This book is more than a restaurant guide. It is your personal food adventure journal: a place to record what you tasted, where you wandered, what surprised you, and which dishes deserve a return trip. Whether it is your first visit or your fiftieth, let these pages help you savor the French Quarter one bite, one block, and one delicious memory at a time.

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The Bachelor in New Orleans

Robert Kinney, Eugenia Riley, et al.

4.4
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
New Orleans, Lousiana Travel: An Interactive Relic Scavenger Hunt (The Historic Cities Scavenger Hunt Travel Booklets) book cover74

New Orleans, Lousiana Travel: An Interactive Relic Scavenger Hunt (The Historic Cities Scavenger Hunt Travel Booklets)

Charron Moczygemba

4.4

Transform your trip to the land of legendary jazz pioneers, Spanish colonial architecture, and vibrant festive plazas into an unforgettable interactive adventure! Whether you are planning a family vacation, a scenic road trip, or a weekend getaway, New Orleans Travel Tour turns the city’s most iconic historic quarters, sunken stone river pathways, and sprawling outskirt greenways into a giant, reg

Louisiana Bucket List: Explore 150 French Quarter Streets, Bayou Waterways, Plantation Country Routes, Cajun Cultural Towns, Gulf Coast Escapes, and Unforgettable Creole State Adventures book cover75

Louisiana Bucket List: Explore 150 French Quarter Streets, Bayou Waterways, Plantation Country Routes, Cajun Cultural Towns, Gulf Coast Escapes, and Unforgettable Creole State Adventures

Parker Colven

4.4

THIS ISN’T JUST A TRAVEL GUIDE — IT’S A LOUISIANA BUCKET LIST EXPERIENCE.Some places entertain you for a weekend.Louisiana stays with you for life.It’s the sound of jazz echoing through the French Quarter after midnight. The smell of fresh beignets and gumbo drifting through historic streets. The silence of cypress swamps at sunrise. The energy of Mardi Gras parades. The rhythm of zydeco dance hal

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The Unofficial Guide to New Orleans

Eve Zibart

4.4
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
New Orleans Travel Guide 2026: Perfect Companion to Explore a Louisiana city on the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico Like a Local, with All the Essentials for a Smooth and Memorable Trip book cover77

New Orleans Travel Guide 2026: Perfect Companion to Explore a Louisiana city on the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico Like a Local, with All the Essentials for a Smooth and Memorable Trip

Kena Matsson

4.4

New Orleans Travel Guide 2026New Orleans is a city that lingers in the imagination long before you arrive and stays with you long after you leave. This richly detailed and immersive travel companion invites readers into the heart of the Crescent City with an approach that feels both deeply informative and wonderfully atmospheric. Designed for travelers who want more than a quick overview, this boo

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Day Trips® from New Orleans, 2nd

James Gaffney

4.4
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.
Louisiana Travel Guide: Top Things to Do, New Orleans, Plantations, Itineraries, Maps, Hotels, Restaurants & Practical Travel Tips book cover79

Louisiana Travel Guide: Top Things to Do, New Orleans, Plantations, Itineraries, Maps, Hotels, Restaurants & Practical Travel Tips

Russell Roam

4.4

Discover the Best of Louisiana with This Complete Travel GuidePlanning a trip to Louisiana? This complete Louisiana Travel Guide is designed to help you plan the perfect trip with vibrant cities, historic plantations, bayous, scenic drives, detailed itineraries, maps, and practical travel tips.This guide includes everything you need to know about Louisiana before visiting, whether you're exploring

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Access New Orleans (Access New Orleans, 4th Ed)

Constance Snow and Richard Saul Wurman and Kenneth Snow

4.4
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

4.4
New Orleans Travel Guide 2026/2027: Explore the French Quarter, Frenchmen Street, Garden District & Beyond with Real Itineraries, Local Eats, Mardi Gras Planning & Neighbourhood Maps book cover82

New Orleans Travel Guide 2026/2027: Explore the French Quarter, Frenchmen Street, Garden District & Beyond with Real Itineraries, Local Eats, Mardi Gras Planning & Neighbourhood Maps

Zlaventen Bondfreeman

4.4

New Orleans Travel Guide 2026–2027: Explore the French Quarter, Frenchmen Street, Garden District & Beyond with Real Itineraries, Local Eats, Mardi Gras Planning & Neighbourhood MapsMost New Orleans guides send you to Bourbon Street and call it a day. This one doesn't.This is the guide built for travellers who want the real city — the one where brass bands lead second line parades through Tremé on

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Fodor's New Orleans 2010 (Fodor's Gold Guides)

Fodor's

4.4
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
Weird Day Trips from New Orleans: A Road Trip Through Swamps, Ghost Towns, Hot Sauce Islands, Haunted Plantations, Monster Legends, River Roads, and ... ... (SparkTrail Weird America Series Book 33) book cover84

Weird Day Trips from New Orleans: A Road Trip Through Swamps, Ghost Towns, Hot Sauce Islands, Haunted Plantations, Monster Legends, River Roads, and ... ... (SparkTrail Weird America Series Book 33)

SparkTrail Press

4.4

New Orleans is already one of America’s strangest cities, but the weirdness does not stop at the French Quarter.In Weird Day Trips from New Orleans, the road out of town leads to swamp monster legends, haunted plantation stories, pirate country, tiny churches, frog towns, hot sauce islands, bayou art, ghostly inns, river-road history, and Gulf Coast beach towns with storm stories hiding behind the

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Frommer's New Orleans 2010

Mary Herczog

4.4
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
New Orleans Travel Journal: A lined 6x9 notebook to write about your trip to NOLA book cover86

New Orleans Travel Journal: A lined 6x9 notebook to write about your trip to NOLA

SMJ Publishing

4.4

New Orleans Travel Journal: A Lined 6x9 Notebook to Write About Your Trip to NOLACapture the magic, mystery, and vibrant culture of New Orleans with this beautifully designed New Orleans Travel Journal. Whether you're strolling through the French Quarter, savoring beignets at Café du Monde, or enjoying the rhythms of live jazz, this 6x9-inch lined notebook is the perfect companion to document your

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to New Orleans

Jones

4.4

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

America's Historic Trails with Tom Bodett book cover88

America's Historic Trails with Tom Bodett

Tele-record Productions

4.4
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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New Orleans

Tom Downs

4.3
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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Berlitz New Orleans Pocket Guide

Inc. Berlitz International

4.3
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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Frommer's Portable New Orleans

Mary Herczog

4.3
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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Frommer's Irreverent Guide to New Orleans

Guy Leblanc

4.3
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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New Orleans: Its Old Houses, Shops and Public Buildings

Nathaniel Cortlandt Curtis

4.3
“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

4.3
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

4.3