{"product_id":"the-home-place-memoirs-of-a-colored-mans-love-affair-with-nature-paperback","title":"The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. Drew Lanham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/em\u003e, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDating 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 \u003cem\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, \u003cem\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eSparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts.\u003c\/i\u003e He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in publications including \u003cem\u003eOrion\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAudubon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFlycatcher\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWilderness, \u003c\/em\u003eand in several anthologies, including \u003cem\u003eThe Colors of Nature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eState of the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBartram's Living Legacy\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCarolina Writers at Home\u003c\/em\u003e. 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 hawk's downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987396854061,"sku":"9781571313508","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/aDdCSGJkbzF1Ry9hUHRqMm4rcm0wdz09.webp?v=1776178475","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-home-place-memoirs-of-a-colored-mans-love-affair-with-nature-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}