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Author Lanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew), author.

Title The home place : memoirs of a colored man's love affair with nature / J. Drew Lanham.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. LANHAM, J.    Storage
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B LANHAM J.DREW L    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B LANHAM, J. DREW    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-LANHAM LAN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 216 pages ; 22 cm
Note Photographs used as end papers.
Contents Me : an introduction -- FLOCK -- The home place -- Mamatha takes flight -- A good name -- A field guide to the four -- First-Sunday God -- FLEDGLING -- Little brown Icarus -- Whose eye is on the sparrow -- Cows -- Life's spring -- FLIGHT -- The bluebird of enlightenment -- Hoops -- Birding while black -- Jawbone -- New religion -- Thinking -- Digging -- Family reunion -- Patchwork legacy.
Summary "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.
Subject 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.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Environmentalists & Naturalists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
NATURE -- Essays.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Lanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew), author. Home place First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016 9781571318756 (DLC) 2016024050
ISBN 9781571313157 (hardcover : alk. paper)
157131315X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. 99969859243
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