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The Home Place - Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (Paperback)
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The Home Place - Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature (Paperback)
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List price R458
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Discovery Miles 4 310
You Save R27 (6%)
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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.
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