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South Carolina's Plantations & Historic Homes

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OK, let's not get carried away here. While this is a nice book, it's a very small, selective survey. I bought this book for the Kindle, as you can see that the market prices are a bit silly. This book includes well-written profiles and beautiful photography for 34 landmark sites from Charleston to the Upcountry. All the landmarks you expect to see in a photo essay like this are here. There are no blatant omissions.

The text is good, but it's also relatively mundane. It's intended for a casual reader rather than an architect or historian. The photography is the real feature. The lovely color photographs include exteriors, interiors, architectural details and gardens for each site. This is a book to stare at, if not to read.

That said, it's definitely worth the $15 Kindle price, but $190 new and $90 used is absurd. Don't overpay for this book.

There's a book similar to this one called PLANTATIONS OF THE LOW COUNTRY, by Baldwin, Baldwin and Iseley, published in 1985. That book is superb, despite its age, and is an excellent companion volume to this one.