Lowcountry: The Natural Landscape
by Jane Lareau, Richard D. Porcher
, photography by Tom Blagden, Jr.
Published 1988
$49.95 (Hardcover)
This is the first exhibit-format volume to celebrate the essence of wilderness embodied in the rivers, forests, swamps, marshes and barrier islands of South Carolina. The photographs convey a resonance of life, a dynamic sense of place unique to this particular world.
Plantations of the Low Country
by Agnes LeLand Baldwin, William P. Baldwin
, photography by N. Jane Iseley
Published 1986
$19.95 (Softcover)
Open the doors to some of the South's most beautiful homes and glimpse a vanished world of prosperous plantations and provincial aristocracy. Arranged around the river systems that supported plantation life, the book surveys Lowcountry architecture and the history of the people who lived here.
Pigs on the Patio
by Elizabeth Smith Tucker
Published 2007
$22.00 (Hardcover)
Liz Tucker's delightful memoir tells tales of her young, eccentric family at Limerick Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina. Besides the pigs, there were coons in the cupboards and cows in the cornfield, and a husband who believed duck hunting “was why we were put on this earth!”
Rosebud Roams Charleston
by Sally Hughes Smith
Published 1999
$15.95 (Hardcover)
Clippity-clop! Rosebud is off and running and lands smack-dab in the middle of Charleston! She wants to see everything all at once. Join in her enthusiasm as she explores this beautiful and historic city.
Shackles
by Marjory Heath Wentworth
, illustration by Lesllie Darwin Pratt-Thomas
Published 2008
$16.99 (Hardcover)
Shackles describes what happens when a group of boys search for buried treasure in their backyard on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. When they unexpectedly dig up slave shackles, neighbor and friend Mr. Green is summoned, and tries to explain the painful hidden history of Sullivan's Island.