For readers who crave messy, musical city adventures.
Forget the schoolbook version—this is a shot of bourbon with a powdered-sugar chaser: jazz, gumbo, ghosts and glorious trouble. Pauline Baird Jones serves up brisk, punchy chapters that stitch pirates, nuns, voodoo queens, and jazz pioneers into a travel guide that reads like a night out in the Quarter.
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Get Deliciously Lost
in New Orleans
This is not a dry history—it’s an invitation. In short, addictive chapters you’ll discover the city’s hidden throughlines: how food tells stories of survival, how music keeps memory alive, and why vice and myth have shaped the local identity. Each anecdote lands like a song—colorful, surprising, and impossible to forget.What makes this book special is its cocktail-of-a-prose: researched but rowdy, useful but unpolished. It pairs insider lore (where to catch the rawest brass, which po’boy still steals the show) with cultural context, making it perfect for armchair adventurers, foodies, music lovers, and anyone who prefers their travel guides with a little sin and a lot of soul.Read it and you’ll leave knowing the city’s secret songs, flavors, and scandals—and itching to get on the next flight.
Let’s Get Lost in New Orleans — A Wild, Jazzy Love Letter to the City
Forget the tidy guidebook. This is Bourbon, beignets, scandal, and saxophones—served up loud and unapologetic.
Forget everything you learned in school—this isn’t a history book. This is a shot of bourbon with a powdered-sugar chaser. Pauline Baird Jones invites you on a fast, funny, and fiercely affectionate tour of New Orleans, where pirates became patriots, aristocrats partied like rockstars, and nuns smuggled matchmaking into the colonies. Let’s Get Lost in New Orleans (You’ll Like It) rejects the sanitized, surface-level travelogue in favor of the messy, soulful stories that make the city sing.
You’ll wade through swamps of scandal, shimmy down music’s back alleys, and eat your way through a city that lives to feed you. This book is perfect for curious wanderers, armchair adventurers, and anyone who’s ever dreamed of getting lost in a place that refuses to be neat. If you want straight facts, this isn’t for you—if you want flavor, grit, laughter, and a few surprising truths, turn the page and let New Orleans do what it does best.
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Buy now and start wandering—bring the sights, sounds, and smells of New Orleans home tonight.
Pauline Baird Jones is a writer who falls hard for cities that hum at night and hide secrets in plain sight. She writes about the people, food, music, and mischief that turn a place into a story—and she believes the best travel writing is a love affair with a city’s contradictions.