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The Home Place - Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (Paperback) Loot Price: R352
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The Home Place - Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (Paperback): J Drew Lanham

The Home Place - Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (Paperback)

J Drew Lanham

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"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 Carolina-a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"-has 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 South-and in America today.

General

Imprint: Milkweed Editions
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2017
Authors: J Drew Lanham
Dimensions: 215 x 142 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-1-57131-350-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Science, technology & engineering
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Birds & birdwatching
Books > Biography > Science, technology & engineering
LSN: 1-57131-350-8
Barcode: 9781571313508

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