Colonial Histories: South Carolina by Eugenia Burney

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good. 1970. Thomas Nelson. 2nd Printing.

Here is "Carolana" a land that was both a challenge and a curse. This book tells why the Spanish and French attempts at colonization here failed, including the details f the first French settlers desperate return to England, when one man was eaten to save the rest from starvation.

The English settles however, were amazingly successful in their struggle to survive in this land beset by earthquakes, fires, epidemics, hurricanes and more. A full rich history of the carolias up through the American Revolution. Based on the accounts of the original carolinians, this is the story of how the people of South Carolina haped their dreams into a state wth a democratic form of government greater tha any aristocracy that could be envisioned.