A richly embroidered coastal South Carolina tapestry of three strands: Philip Wilkinson's stunning photos of people, wildlife and weather; his homespun stories of the place and its conservation history; and a seven-part narrative by award-winning environmental writer and Wofford College professor John Lane who shares what he has learned firsthand in the field with Phil. With publication of this remarkable coffee-table book, the Lord Berkeley Conservation Trust, Evening Post Books and a generous group of conservation-minded sponsors brings Wilkinson's legacy to a wider public and celebrates the beauty and value of a remarkably wild and vital place.

Lunsford Planck escaped the Santee Delta area of coastal South Carolina decades ago, determined to become an international photographer and purge past scars from his memory. For the past twenty years, Luns' healing home base has been New York City, where he lived with his partner Jay. One week ago, Jay secretly visited the Santee Delta to paint a surprise masterpiece of Lun's birthplace. While in the Delta, Jay was beaten and dragged behind a pickup truck and left for dead. Luns returned to the Delta to find Jay in a coma and dying. Luns now goes undercover to solve the attacks on the love of his life. He hires a local young ruffian, Colton Rivers, to help him "fix up" his deceased mother's storm-ravaged coastal home. As Luns begins to hang out at the local bar and befriend young Colton, how far into its unforgiving swamp will the Santee Delta lure Luns?

Every day, people drive across South Carolina's Santee River unaware of the bountiful natural resources and complex history surrounding them. Its waters have been the source for the rich and diverse ecosystems and associated wildlife of the Santee Delta. With unique characteristics, this estuary was the fertile ground for the development of South Carolina's tidal rice culture and the utilization of an enslaved labor force to carry out brutal and often fatal work. The Santee Delta: Waters and Voices is a portrait of an area rich in natural and human history. In this book, Raynor utilizes a depth of historical research, as well as his own investigations on the water - via sailboat, canoe, outboard - and on foot, expanding on the interview process to inform this wide-ranging project.

Every day people drive across the Santee Delta, unaware of the bountiful natural resources and complex history surrounding them. Bob Raynor paints a portrait of the fertile grounds that fostered the development of tidal rice culture with an enslaved labor force to carry out brutal and often fatal work.Raynor utilizes his personal investigations on the water and on foot to highlight the Delta's crucial role in the environmental and economic development of SouthCarolina. The Santee Delta: Waters and Voices takes an in-depth exploration of this area through a narrative, including the storytelling of historical events and Raynor's experiences in this fascinating Lowcountry world.