Rice & Ducks: The Surprising Convergence that Saved the Carolina Lowcountry | Hardcover Edition

Winner of the 2014 Gold IPPY Award! 

Rice & Ducks records the history of the South Carolina rice lands, a landscape that stretches all the way from the Pee Dee River to the Savannah. It is based on a wealth of personal interviews, letters, family papers, plantation and game journals, and other primary source materials. It also draws from experts and scholars in the fields of rice cultivation and plantation history, African-American studies, wetland and waterfowl biology, and wildlife and habitat conservation.

Hardcover, Environment

$100.00

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Winner of the 2015 Gold IPPY Award! 

Rice & Ducks records the history of the South Carolina rice lands, a landscape that stretches all the way from the Pee Dee River to the Savannah. It is based on a wealth of personal interviews, letters, family papers, plantation and game journals, and other primary source materials. It also draws from experts and scholars in the fields of rice cultivation and plantation history, African-American studies, wetland and waterfowl biology, and wildlife and habitat conservation.

It is a story full of interesting and memorable characters, and unlikely allies. They include English Lords Proprietors, southern plantation owners and slaves, northern industrialists, powerful U.S. Senators, daring scientists, media magnates, Trappist monks, and Wall Street financiers.

Rice & Ducks is a beautiful full-color, coffee table book generously illustrated with archival and modern photography, as well as maps, drawings and paintings from both public and private collections.

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About the Author

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Virginia Christian Beach is a graduate of the University of Virginia and a former Peace Corps volunteer in East Africa. She writes for numerous local and regional publications on the subjects of conservation and natural history, and is the author of Medway, a history of a South Carolina plantation. She has served on the staffs of The Nature Conservancy, the Lowcountry Open Land Trust and the S.C. Sea Grant Consortium.

Reviews

Gray’s Sporting Journal- “…a fully drawn and beautifully illustrated history of how a million acres of blackwater river corridors and coastal wetlands, rich with wildlife, came to be preserved in South Carolina’s Low Country.” Sept./Oct. 2018

Charleston Magazine – http://charlestonmag.com/features/worth_savoring

Gibbe’s Museum Q&A – http://www.gibbesmuseum.org/gibbes_blog/?p=4536