Henry David Thoreau

Cape Cod (1865) . Henry David Thoreau

Early life and education, 1817-1837Thoreau's birthplace, the Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse in Concord, MassachusettsHenry David Thoreau was born David Henry Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts, into the "modest New England family" of John Thoreau, a pencil maker, and Cynthia Dunbar. His paternal grandfather had been born on the UK crown dependency island of Jersey.is one of several excursion books by Henry David Thoreau. The travel itinerary frames his thoughts about geography, natural and local history, and philosophy. The copy presented here is the first book edition, published in the United States in 1865. The individual chapters had previously appeared in Putnam's Monthly, beginning in 1855.