The Home Place [Book Club Set]
Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2016.
Format: Kit
Related Information: https://www.richlandlibrary.com/services/reserve-book-club-set
Edition: First edition.
Description: Includes 15 paperback books in one bag.
"The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging. This is at once a deeply moving memoir and a riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South -- and in America today."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Me : an introduction -- FLOCK -- The home place -- Mamatha takes flight -- A good name -- A field guide to the four -- First-Sunday God -- FLEDGLING -- Little brown Icarus -- Whose eye is on the sparrow -- Cows -- Life's spring -- FLIGHT -- The bluebird of enlightenment -- Hoops -- Birding while black -- Jawbone -- New religion -- Thinking -- Digging -- Family reunion -- Patchwork legacy.
Subjects:
Lanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew)
Zoologists -- South Carolina -- Biography.
African American zoologists -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Conservationists -- South Carolina -- Biography.
African American conservationists -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Book club set, Adult.
Lanham, J. Drew (Joseph Drew)
Zoologists -- South Carolina -- Biography.
African American zoologists -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Conservationists -- South Carolina -- Biography.
African American conservationists -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Book club set, Adult.
ISBN:
9781571313508
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BOOK CLUB SET Home | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Book Club Set | In |