Buxton Books is proud to host author Bob Raynor for an in-store conversation about the Santee Delta! This is a free, in-store event. Please email rsvp@buxtonbooks.com to reserve your spot.

About the Book:

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 South Carolina. 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.

About the Author:

Bob Raynor’s first book, Exploring Bull Island: Sailing and Walking Around a South Carolina Sea Island, published in 2005, combined his interests in adventure, natural history, and the human history of the Lowcountry. In a similar approach, his second work, Tracing the Cape Romain Archipelago, expanded his fieldwork and research to the entire Cape Romain area. As part of the research for the current work, Raynor initiated, coordinated, and was the interviewer for the oral history project Voices of The Santee Delta, archived at the Lowcountry Digital Library. He has regularly posted on his blog Raynor on the Coast for over a dozen years “Exploring the Lowcountry and Beyond.”