The home place
memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature
by J. Drew Lanham
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"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"-to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field. This book 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."--Jacket.
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African American zoologists, Conservationists, Zoologists, Biography, African American conservationists, South carolina, biography, African americans, biography, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Cultural Heritage, Environmentalists & Naturalists, Personal Memoirs, NATURE, EssaysPeople
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Mar 01, 2021, Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Mar 05, 2019, Tantor Audio
audio cd
1515943496 9781515943495
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Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
2017, Milkweed Editions
in English
1571313508 9781571313508
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The home place: memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature
2016, Milkweed Editions
in English
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157131315X 9781571313157
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Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
2016, Milkweed Editions
in English
1571318755 9781571318756
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