Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas

Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas is a highly detailed look at one of America’s most historic, mysterious and complex cities. “New Orleans is all kinds of unfathomable” eloquently describes the authors. “A city of amorphous boundaries, where land is forever turning into water … where lines that elsewhere seem firmly drawn are blurry … ”, and with that introduction, the book guides the reader through this world using essays on various aspects of the city: the political, spiritual, economic and cultural. The book teaches us that New Orleans is many different cities of many sizes and shapes.

The guide...