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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man''s Love Affair with Nature

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By (author): J. Drew Lanham

In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. All of these hues are me; I am, in the deepest sense, colored. From these fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham.

Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolinaa place easy to pass by on the way somewhere elsehas been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be the rare bird, the oddity.

By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural Southand in America today.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 27 Jul 2017
  • Publisher: Milkweed Editions
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781571313508

About J. Drew Lanham

A native of Edgefield South Carolina J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Mans Love Affair with Nature which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. Most recently he is the author of Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts. He is a birder naturalist and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in publications including Orion Audubon Flycatcher and Wilderness and in several anthologies including The Colors of Nature State of the Heart Bartrams Living Legacy and Carolina Writers at Home. Lanham is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow. An Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University he and his family live in the Upstate of South Carolina a soaring hawks downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall.

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