A review by paulap
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

informative medium-paced

2.5

This was an interesting book regarding the author life as an ornithologist, and how it was difficult to be a black man in that environment where there is hardly any. That was interesting, although it was less about the nature than the memoir side. There was a detail that bothered me, when justifying his love for hunting, arguing that vegetarians are not that good because the soja that they probably consume has caused destruction of the land as well. Even though that is true, he completely ignores the fact that most soja is used to feed animals for meet, and although being vegetarian does not eliminate the damage, it highly reduces. That might be a detail, but made me question his thoroughness on everything else.