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The Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River
Suzanne Cameron Linder and Marta Leslie Thacker
896 pages/photos/illustrations/hardbound
ACE2.....$110 postpaid
Architect Robert Mills called the rice fields in South Carolina "the gold mines of the state."  He knew that where the rivers met the sea, the fertile delta lands formed a treasure more valuable than minerals, for they produced Carolina Gold - the large-grained rice that bestowed fame and fortune on the plantations of Georgetown District.

This atlas traces the history of the plantations and the lives of the rice planters who cultivated the land along the rivers.  And it does more--it traces the family connections that bound the plantations together.  Each sketch in this lavishly illustrated and carefully documented book includes a plat and at least one photograph.  The index to the over-800-page volume includes hundreds of personal and place names.  The atlas is a treasure for the historian, the genealogist, and the environmentalist.

South Carolina Then & Now
Edited by Jason H. Silverman and Judith M. Andrews
Essays by Lawrence S. Rowland, Eldred E. Prince, Jr., John Hammond Moore, A. V. Huff, Jr.
255 pages/photos/hardbound
PD11...$20.50 postpaid
South Carolina Then & Now - a tribute to the picturesque beauty and historical significance of South Carolina - captures the essence of our wonderful, enigmatic, and contradictory Palmetto state. Over one hundred fifty pages of color plates celebrate this land of beauty and hospitality with its light and shadows, its peoples of all colors and ethnicity, and its antiquity and modernity.  Four essays, covering the Lowcountry, the Pee Dee, the Midlands and the Upcountry, and a multitude of archival photographs, ranging from a 1671 deed to a walk on the moon, explore South Carolina's ironies and inconsistencies, and its myths and realities.