Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne: How to Know Him
A more fixed feature of ancestral New England, with which Hawthorne, boy and man, was familiar, is the fishing village on the coast. He knew the region, also, far and wide in the interior, both by residence and random bits of travel; but his birth and home were by the sea, and he had sea-blood from his fathers. His employment, too, in middle life, brought him in close contact with seafaring men. The touch of salt was not uncommon then, in New England blood. Longfellow had it; and how happily the sea slips like a tide into his verse!
I remember the black wharves and the slips, And the sea-tides tossing free.
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