{"product_id":"the-home-place-memoirs-of-a-colored-mans-love-affair-with-nature-by-j-drew-lanham","title":"The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDating 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBy turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shop Denison University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43123732938841,"sku":"9781571313508","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1550\/9087\/files\/TheHomePlace.webp?v=1772811657","url":"https:\/\/shop.denison.edu\/products\/the-home-place-memoirs-of-a-colored-mans-love-affair-with-nature-by-j-drew-lanham","provider":"Shop Denison University","version":"1.0","type":"link"}