This book is about the intense connection most people have to specific places, particularly their place of origin. I was interested in this as a traveler, someone who feels more intense compulsion to go to unfamiliar places than to visit my birthplace. There are a couple lines in this guide that seem to acknowledge people such as I exist, but not many. There is extensive discussion of homelessness and placelessness, but with the assumption that such people are unhappy because they are missing something - the poor, the refugees, the deported, etc. That's alright, I was looking to better understand this mindset, and I believe I do. And I've always been aware that it's the more common state of mind.
The book looks at various dimensions of "home," of which there are many. It looks at home as homeland, one's nation or territory or tribe. It looks at home as a sheltering structure. It looks at culture as and element of home. And, as I mentioned, it investigates the various causes of being without home -- though with the assumption that that such a status is generally an affliction.