"I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT
Taylor relies on vivid characters to carry the story
each story is followed by detailed translator's notes
perfect for building the budding vocabularies of babies and toddlers
the reasons it often doesn't get made
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature -- J. Drew Lanham, Paperback Medical / Nursing "I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT"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 The Home Place, a big hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist and professor of ecology J. Drew Lanham. Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina a place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"