The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature -- J. Drew Lanham, Paperback Medical / Nursing "I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT

"I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT

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Published: 6/1/1987

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The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature -- J. Drew Lanham, Paperback Medical / Nursing "I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT"In 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 The Home Place, a big hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"