Home Place
J. Drew Lanham
Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik / Naturwissenschaften allgemein
Beschreibung
';A groundbreaking work about race and the American landscape, and a deep meditation on naturewise and beautiful.'Helen Macdonald, author ofH is for Hawk A Foreword ReviewsBest Book of the Year and Nautilus Silver Award Winner 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. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolinaa place ';easy to pass by on the way somewhere else'has been home to generations of Lanhams. InThe 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.' By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking,The Home Placeis a meditation on nature and belonging by an ornithologist and professor of ecology, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural Southand in America today. ';When you're done withThe Home Place, it won't be done with you. Its wonders will linger like everything luminous.'Star Tribune ';A lyrical story about the power of the wildsynthesizes his own family history, geography, nature, and race into a compelling argument for conservation and resilience.'National Geographic
