Charleston - Hardcover

William Baldwin, award-winning novelist and historian, and renowned architectural photographer, N. Jane Iseley, know and love the South Carolina Lowcountry and its centerpiece city, and this intimacy comes shining through on every page. Charleston is ancient, but the photographs are fresh, the details telling, and the colors disarming. And the accompanying text is rich in historical and romantic certainties – and attentive to the matters of living. You’ll find the expected here – the stunning beauty of the South Battery and the classical grandeur of Hibernian Hall. These are gardens and gates, churches and the Old World streetscapes – scenes of the familiar. But there are overlooked treasures as well – a “golden” corridor of the Aiken-Rhett slave quarters and the beshadoweded baptismal font of St. Michael’s Church. Come along. You’re invited in.

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, a lifelong resident of the South Carolina Lowcountry, is probably best known for wr9iting 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.