Along the River Road

Along the River Road - Cover

Past and Present on Louisiana's Historic Byway

by Mary Ann Sternberg

392 pages / 6.00 x 9.00 inches / 93 halftones, 2 maps

ebook available

Social Studies / Regional Studies

Paperback / 9780807150627 / April 2013
$24.95
Hardcover / 9780807152058 / April 2013
$39.95

Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana’s River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked destinations. Featuring background information about the area and a detailed guided tour—upriver on the east bank and downriver along the west—the book gives an overview of the River Road, serving as an accessible and definitive companion to exploring the corridor.

Sternberg’s abiding appreciation of the area’s allure, garnered over twenty years, produces a must-have travel companion to a place that far exceeds its common reputation as only a parade of elegant antebellum mansions. In this new edition, she again encourages travelers to experience the many treasures of this wondrous byway for themselves, so they too can see how much it has changed over the past decade.

A native of New Orleans and longtime resident of Baton Rouge, Mary Ann Sternberg is a freelance writer with a focus on Louisiana history, culture, and natural history. In addition to her books on the River Road—Along the River Road and River Road Rambler—she is also the author of Winding through Time, a portrait of historic Bayou Manchac, and a children’s book, Gilly and Bloo.

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