Summary
This biography traces Henry Thoreau through the larger family and social background that shaped him, beginning with his father John Thoreau’s life as a Jersey-born seaman who settled in Boston and built a trade in molasses and other goods. It places the family in Concord, the New England village where Thoreau lived and died, and emphasizes the author’s effort to combine Thoreau’s own writings with testimony from his contemporaries. The book presents Thoreau as a reserved figure and aims to recover the fuller truth of his life and character.
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