Gosse recounts his childhood as the only son of Philip Henry Gosse, the zoologist and strict Plymouth Brother, who after his wife’s death raised the boy in Devon to be a minister of the faith. Shut off from fiction, geology and most of the world, the son slowly discovers a temperament of his own, and the bond between the two strains toward breaking.
One of the great English autobiographies, a tender and unsparing portrait of faith, science and family in the 1850s. Download the free EPUB.