J. Drew Lanham. A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. He is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist, and an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson bltadwin.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham (adult book) and Ruby’s Birds by Mya Thompson (for younger readers). In Ruby’s Birds, a little girl discovers her spark – birds - in her own city neighborhood. They enliven her world and excite her about nature. Her own journey begins. Birds are also a lifelong passion. From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina―a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”―has been home to /5().
J. Drew Lanham's The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature is a beautifully written memoir by a self-described wandering, wondering, watcher--an ornithologist and conservationist by profession--whose love of the wild was inspired by a childhood exploring and helping his family work their part of an inholding on USFS. From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham. Dating 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. J. Drew Lanham. A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal.
J. Drew Lanham. A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. He is a birder, naturalist, hunter-conservationist, and an Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University. ISBN: Reviewed by B.J. Hollars. In his debut memoir, self-described “eco-addict” J. Drew Lanham explores the connection between trees and family trees, birds and brethren, and most importantly of all, the place where mother nature and human nature meet. A Review of J. Drew Lanham’s The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. by Amy Wright • Janu No Comments. “There are still priceless places,” J. Drew Lanham says, “where nature hangs on by tooth, talon, and tendril.”. And there remain rare breeds of humans who fall in love with a land darkened by the blood and sweat of ancestors purchased to work it.
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