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Paperback The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature Book

ISBN: 1571313508

ISBN13: 9781571313508

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

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"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...

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Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • April 22, 2020

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