The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature

A lyrical memoir about growing up in rural South Carolina with essays on nature, belonging, and identity. Lanham, a Black ornithologist and professor, fell in love with the natural world as a child in the 1970s. Often the only Black person in a white-dominated field, he explores why so few people of color study natural sciences and what can be done to foster a stronger connection to land and the birds and animals that live there.