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The region known as the Lowcountry runs approximately from Charleston, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, and includes more than one thousand islands, swirling networks of rivers and estuaries, and a shoreline so long and complex that no accurate accounting has ever been made.
It is a region steeped in history and culture. There is Charleston, which has been a regional capital for more than three hundred years, a city with an architecture inventory as rich and abundant as any city in North America, a place that "has long considered itself the center of a world, a place apart, with all the detachment, self-regard, and romantic isolation that come with the condition."
Roughly one hundred miles to the south lies Savannah, which has gained recent fame as the loving subject of the best-selling book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. General William Tecumseh Sherman ended his Civil War "March to the Sea" campaign at Savannah, and was so taken with the city's beauty and its sociability that, rather than burn it to the ground, he took up residence there and in a famous 1864 telegram offered it as a Christmas gift to President Lincoln.
In between these two Southern cities lies the heart of rural Lowcountry, the sea island gems of Beaufort, Edisto, and Bluffton, and the world-famous resorts of Hilton Head Island.
In Lowcountry: From Charleston to Savannah, photographer Bob Krist and travel writer and Beaufort County resident Cecily McMillan explore everything from architecture and culture to the coastal scenery and world-renowned golf courses of the region. Packed with one hundred color photographs of the people, places, and scenery, Lowcountry is an illustrated narrative of one of the country's most historically flamboyant regions.
