From the publisher's website: "&ldquo\;In me\, there is the red of miry clay\, the brown of spring floods\, the gold of ripening tobacco. I am\, in the deepest sense\, colored.&rdquo\; From these fertile soils&mdash\;of love\, land\, identity\, family\, and race&m dash\;emerges \;The Home Place\, a big-hearted\, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.
\nDating back to slavery\, Edgefiel d County\, South Carolina&mdash\;a place &ldquo\;easy to pass by on the wa y to somewhere else&rdquo\;&mdash\;has been home to generations of Lanhams . In \;The Home Place\, readers meet these extraordinary people\, incl uding Drew himself\, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with t he natural world around him. As his passion takes flight\, however\, he be gins to ask what it means to be &ldquo\;the rare bird\, the oddity&rdquo\; &mdash\;to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied t o by forced labor\, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field ."
\nYou may enjoy listening to Krista Tippett's interview with Dr. Lanham: https://onbeing.org/programs/drew-lanham-i-worship-every -bird-that-i-see/
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