Henry D. Thoreau by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn audiobook.

Genre: biography

Written by Concord reformer and firsthand acquaintance Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, Henry D. Thoreau offers an intimate portrait of the man behind Walden and the era that shaped him. Drawing on personal memories, family testimony, and the literary circles of Emerson and the Transcendentalists, Sanborn follows Thoreau from his New England roots and youth through his emergence as a restless scholar, precise observer of nature, and uncompromising moral voice. The story moves between the ordinary details of work reminding us that Thoreau had to earn his living, and the extraordinary intensity of a mind determined to live by principle, even when that put him at odds with custom, commerce, and public opinion. Along the way, Sanborn maps the friendships and rivalries that tested Thoreau's independence, the quiet discipline of fieldwork that fed his writing, and the social and political storms of mid-19th-century America that demanded a response. At its heart, this is a biography of character: how a private life of woods and words became a public challenge to live deliberately.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 00

(00:13:17) Chapter 01

(00:46:42) Chapter 02

(01:21:40) Chapter 03

(02:01:58) Chapter 04

(02:36:54) Chapter 05

(03:16:10) Chapter 06

(03:51:00) Chapter 07

(04:26:39) Chapter 08

(04:44:15) Chapter 09

(05:15:59) Chapter 10

(05:41:12) Chapter 11

(06:09:43) Chapter 12

(06:26:28) Chapter 13

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