Lowcountry Plantations Today [Hardcover]

N. Jane Iseley (Author), William P. Baldwin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2001

American Heritage, Preservation, Conservation (and Grand Living)

Lowcountry Plantations Today is the definitive document to the storied past and purposeful future of 35 South Carolina Lowcountry plantations; some of America's largest tracts of undeveloped land and home to significant and magnificent houses, whose owners have-in this rare instance-opened their doors for all of us to peek inside.

Editorial Reviews

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"Lavish and illuminating, Lowcountry Plantations Today takes us on a memorable tour of 35 plantation homes." -- Rodney Stevens, The CDN Bookstore, March 2002

"These are views we are not likely to get elsewhere (unless befriended by the owners and invited over for cocktails)." -- William W. Starr, The State, January 27, 2002

About the Author

N. Jane Iseley has 29 photography books to her credit, including Charleston, Charleston Entertains, Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697-1865, The Charleston Interior, Savannah Tour of Homes and Gardens, and Savannah Secret and Public Gardens. She is the president of Legacy Publications. Her home is on a family farm in Burlington, North Carolina.

William P. Baldwin, lifelong resident of the South Carolina Lowcountry, is probably best known for writing the best-selling Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden and Sister Peterkin's Heaven Is a Beautiful Place. These two much-loved memoirs followed his South Carolina-set epic novel The Hard to Catch Mercy, which won the Lillian Smith Award and wide critical acclaim. Baldwin and Iseley collaborated on such histories as the classic, predecessor to this volume: Plantations of the Low Country: South Carolina 1697-1865.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 333 pages
• Publisher: Legacy Pubns; Second edition edition (December 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 093310121X
• ISBN-13: 978-0933101210
• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 10.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,376,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Visual Dissapointment, January 17, 2004

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Mel Thomas (Winston-Salem, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lowcountry Plantations Today (Hardcover)

Based on the cover of the book, and being a lover of all things about the Old South, I was anticipating a beautifully illustrated book in the tradition of Deborah Turbeville's "Newport Remembered" or "Versailles--Absolutism and Harmony" by Claire Constans and Jean Mounicq. I found a few interesting photos scattered through the book, but thought it was cast in a dreary light for the most part, and just plain awful in others. NOT a pretty cocktail-table book, if that's what you're looking for. Must admit, though, it is very informative.