{"product_id":"the-home-place-memoirs-of-a-colored-mans-love-affair-with-nature-9781571313508","title":"The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-10049373\"\u003eJ. Drew Lanham\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571313508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571313508\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO002000\"\u003eCultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO030000\"\u003eEnvironmentalists \u0026amp; Naturalists\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Drew Lanham\u003c\/b\u003e is a native of Edgefield, South Carolina, and an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University. Lanham is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in publications including \u003ci\u003eOrion\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlycatcher\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWilderness\u003c\/i\u003e, and in several anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Colors of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eState of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBartram's Living Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCarolina Writers at Home\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. 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","brand":"Milkweed Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43832835375243,"sku":"9781571313508","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_c71ee849-9708-48a0-aaa9-feffedbd3ced.jpg?v=1755624319","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/the-home-place-memoirs-of-a-colored-mans-love-affair-with-nature-9781571313508","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}