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

10,000 Birds

Once he was a black child, and he grew up on a farm in Edgefield County, South Carolina, surrounded by protected woodlands and troubled human history. The love of nature is evident in his chapters about his parents and siblings; his family is ever-present in his musings on trees and springs and cows.