Using classic archival images, Charleston's greatest architectural and cultural losses are documented in chronological order since 1861 in Handal's Lost Charleston. From the dawn of the photographic era, it chronicles the mansions, church towers, grand hotels, and traditions that time, progress, and fashion have swept aside.

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Storyteller Leigh Handal weaves tales of piracy, rebellion, ancient codes of honor, and first-hand accounts of the madness that ensued as the city fell first to the British, then to the Union . Meet some of the foremost female criminals of the day and learn how war, natural disasters, bankruptcy, and chaos shaped modern Charleston and the Carolina Lowcountry.

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City guide Leigh Jones Handal tells the story of the Charleston she loves through historical archive photos matched with their modern viewpoints. A great book for any coffee table, Charleston Then & Now features images and short essays of the great plantation houses, as well as the grand mansions and civic buildings of Charleston's Old & Historic District, and the less visited "hidden" historical sites of the Lowcountry.