01882cam a2200325 i 4500 587971121 TxAuBib 20220909120000.0 220128s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022006063 9781571313508 PAP 16.00 1571313508 PAP 16.00 TxAuBib rda Lanham, J. Drew, author, (Joseph Drew.) The home place [BOOK] : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature / J. Drew Lanham. First paperback edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2017. 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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.” 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. Provided by publisher. 20220909. Lanham, J. Drew Joseph Drew. Zoologists South Carolina Biography. African American zoologists South Carolina Biography. Conservationists South Carolina Biography. African American conservationists South Carolina Biography. Autobiographies.