4. The chances of seeing someone who looks like me while on the trail are only slightly greater than those of sighting an ivory-billed woodpecker. Likening himself to a thought-to-be extinct species of bird has its intended effect: a reminder to the reader that being in the minority can be felt beyond human institutions. document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(stylesheet); Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal.He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in . Joseph Drew Lanham is an ornithologist, naturalist, writer, and poet combining conservation science with personal, historical, and cultural narratives of nature. I am not going to rate this book because the author, in my opinion, spent way too much time trying to legitimize hunting and meat eating; almost glorifying it in some sections. I loved hearing about he and his family lived on the land, how the young Drew grew to love nature being surrounded by so much of it and the family dynamics that fostered a love of education and discovery. fetchBids: function() { Through their work, winners Corban Addison and Isabelle Chapman demonstrate . "https://":"http://";i+=f?g:k;i+=j;i+=h;c(i)}if(!e.ue_inline){if(a.loadUEFull){a.loadUEFull()}else{b()}}a.uels=c;e.ue=a})(window,document); Publisher's Summary. Lanham is a birdwatcher extraordinaire and I was mesmerized by his graceful descriptions of a world that seemed (all too frequently) to be lacking something like grace. for(var i=0; i