Ebook The Home Place Memoirs of a Colored Man Love Affair with Nature Audible Audio Edition J Drew Lanham Tantor Audio Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 6 hours and 48 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Tantor Audio Audible.com Release Date March 5, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07NWYFR1Y

The Home Place Memoirs of a Colored Man Love Affair with Nature Audible Audio Edition J Drew Lanham Tantor Audio Books Reviews

• This is a very heartfelt and moving book that covers the gamut from the author's childhood to the present. He describes what it was/is like living as the "rare bird" in the flock.
  
  As a white man, there is no way I can begin to put myself in the author's shoes as he describes the affect of seeing Confederate flags on cars, flying from houses, and in cemeteries. I will say this, though...living in Pennsyltucky, we have more than our share of Confederate flags, license plates, etc. on display. I never realized how many folks up here had such pride in their Southern roots--because that's what I understand it's all about. In any case, even I, as a white man, am uncomfortable in the small towns and rural areas where such displays are prominent.
  
  I am a nature lover and enjoyed very much the author's thoughts on birding, the land, etc. as he went through life. I highly recommend this book.
• I am enjoying every page of this outstanding book. I grew up in a white suburban neighborhood in the segregated South. I find Drew Lanham's descriptions of his youth in a rural area so touching. I am envious of his childhood observations of nature.
  I love the concept of a sense of place. How does the place where you grew up affect you for the rest of your life. This book certainly provides Drew Lanham's amazing sense of place.
  Drew Lanham is a gifted writer and I appreciate his sharing of these deeply personal experiences.
• This is a marvelous book, and I'm not just whistling Dixie. It's thoroughly entertaining, enriching, enlivening, and original. Composed of a series of beautifully honed and crafted stand-alone memoir pieces about Lanham's life growing up black in rural S.C., becoming a lover and preserver of nature (especially birds), and his journey to becoming a fully-realized person (he'd probably say " work-in-progress"), it's chock-full of pitch perfect details that pin one to the page. He's a fine writer, and from what I can tell, a fine human being. He's definitely one on whom nothing has been lost, and he has a singular talent in bringing his rich world--and self--to life.
• From the very first page I was drawn into a world that felt so very familiar to my heart in many ways and yet so very different in other ways from the way I grew up not too far away from The Home Place. I wish I could have met Mamatha...sat in her house eating her butter biscuits and delicious treats, while asking her about her healing herbs and natural potions and her connection to "the other world". I cried as I read the "Life's Spring" chapter...cried not only because of the loss of your James Hoover Lanham... but the loss of his scared energy as he maintained the land and stresses as best he could. I could feel his strength, his love and also his pride as a father, a husband and a proud son, carrying on the family name.... And then to transition at spring right as everything was coming to life felt bitter sweet. New life and death...the circle of life.
  
  Truly I could feel every beautiful description as if I were there walking the land, listening to the birds, laying on my back looking at the star studded night, smelling the aromas of cooking and cleaning and flowers and fruit trees...all of it. And to feel the pain of prejudice through the ages... I found myself literally holding my breath during the descriptions of outings with questionable surroundings....and unfortunately feel and know that prejudice is still present today. It brought up for me the search and question that we all ask at some point in our life regardless of the color of our skin...Who are we? Why are we here? Where did we come from?
  Thank you for giving us a glimpse into the magic of your journey and the experiences of the Home Place and all of its ebb and flow. I look forward to reading more of your work in the near future!
  I highly recommend this to all.
• As a white Southerner, I found kinship in the love of Piedmont land. I also had a glimpse of the hypervigilance that I have the privilege to be free of. I greatly appreciate the gift of this book.
• Very insightful for those of us who wander freely looking at nature and don't have to think so hard about what we are looking at or how we look.
  Lanham writes with humor and also a great understanding of nature human and wild! A good read.
• His home life and love of nature are told with humor and frankness. Candor and beauty are mixed together to inspire others to excel in whatever they do, and to love their work as he does.
• Whether home is a house, a family, a farm, or the wide expanse of all nature, it is the place we all turn to for comfort and reflection, the place that defines who we are and why. Descriptions of nature are detailed and precise. Descriptions of people are respectful and observant. As a Southern African American who grew up on a farm and now is a college professor, Lanham offers valuable insights on Nature and conservation, race and America, family and spirituality. This short, very readable book covers a lot of ground beautifully.