Rice & ducks
Subtitle: the surprising convergence that saved the Carolina Lowcountry
By: Virginia Christian Beach
Contributors: Ducks Unlimited
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Evening Post Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charleston, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781929647187; 9781929647194
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Habitat conservation; History; Nature conservation; Rice; Pictorial works; Plantation life
Other titles: Rice and ducks
Notes: "Ducks Unlimited."

Maps on lining pages.

"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."--Publisher's Web site.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: The plantation landscape; title: Rise of the rice kingdom; title: Calamity and collapse; title: Reviving the Lowcountry; title: Genesis of a land legacy; title: Day of reckoning; title: Catalyst and convergence; title: Common ground; title: Saving the past for the future.