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The Home Place

Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

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The Home Place

By: J. Drew Lanham
Narrated by: J. Drew Lanham
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From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist 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, listeners 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.

©2016 J. Drew Lanham (P)2019 Tantor Biographies & Memoirs Cultural & Regional Environmentalists & Naturalists Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Professionals & Academics Science Memoir Heartfelt Funny Inspiring
Beautiful Storytelling • Rich Descriptions • Pleasant Voice • Insightful Content • Lyrical Writing • Warm Narration

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J Drew Lanham is a beautiful storyteller. The words are rich, intimate and bring the reader (listener) fully into his experience and world. I really loved his book and his narration.

Beautiful Description and Storytelling

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I was already familiar with Dr. Lanham as a birder and scientist, and was delighted to discover his talents as a writer. This is a beautifully written book with the added benefit of narration by the author.

Wonderful book!

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I really enjoyed this book. J. Lanham has a wonderful way with words and descriptions with science and poetry all mixed into one great book. I highly recommend!

Wonderful story, Told beautifully

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Should be required reading for high school students and teachers. Also book clubs. Thought provocin

Work worth reading

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I have so enjoyed listening to this book. You can feel the author’s love for his home place, his family and the land.

Beautifully Done

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