An Airboat on the Streets of New Orleans: A Cajun Couple Lends a Hand After Hurricane Katrina Floods the City

by Angers, Trent

• ISBN13: 9780925417886
• ISBN10: 0925417882
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: Acadian House Pub

Summary

A 192-page softcover book about a Cajun couple from Breaux Bridge, La., who took their airboat into New Orleans when the city flooded as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Doug Bienvenu, the airboat operator, and Drue LeBlanc, who was suffering with kidney disease, rescued hundreds of people during their 3-day mission of mercy.

Author Biography

TRENT ANGERS, who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature (2000 and 2001), is a veteran journalist who has authored thousands of published news and feature stories, as well as five books, in a writing and editing career that has spanned four decades.His books are: The Truth About The Cajuns (1989); Dudley LeBlanc: A Biography (1993); The Forgotten Hero Of My Lai: The Hugh Thompson Story (1999); Grand Coteau: The Holy Land of South Louisiana (2004); and An Airboat on the Streets of New Orleans (2008).He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Louisiana State University in 1970. Since 1975, Angers has been editor and publisher of Acadiana Profile, ôThe Magazine of the Cajun Country,ö based in Lafayette, La.; it is one of the longest-running regional publications in the United States.