The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper ( exquisite leather binding)

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper ( exquisite leather binding)

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Published by Wordsworth, 1995, hardcover, illustrated, index, 329 pages, condition: as new.

It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the sinister 'Indian runner', they find help in the person of Hawkeye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe. Cooper's novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.

The author, James Fenimore Cooper was born on 15th September 1789 in Burlington, New Jersey, the son of Quakers, Judge William Cooper and Elisabeth Fenimore Cooper. The family moved to Cooperstown, New York, which his father had founded. James Fenimore spent his youth on the family estate or on the shores of Otsego Lake. Cooper attended the village school, and during 1800-02 entered the household of the rector of St. Peter's. After being expelled from Yale, Cooper joined the Navy and served for a year. In 1808 he served on the Vesuvius and the Wasp in the Atlantic in 1809. He resigned his commission in 1811 and married Susan Augusta De Lancey. During the 1810s Cooper took up the comfortable life of a gentleman farmer. He lived in Mamaroneck, New York from 1811 to 1814, then in Cooperstown, and from 1817 to 1821 in Scarsdale, New York. A change of fortune connected with his father's estate ended the Coopers' rural idyll. He settled in Westchester, living on his wife's land. He was extremely fond of reading and after his wife challenged him to write a book, he began his literary career. His first novel, Precaution, which wasnt very successful, was published in 1820, Then in 1821 he published The Spy. The Spy brought Cooper great fortune and he gave up farming completely. He wrote many other novels including The Deerslayer, The Last of The Mohicans, The Pathfinder and The Prairie. Later in his life he spent his time in Cooperstown and turned from pure fiction to a combination of art and controversy. His later novels include The Crater and Vulcans Peak. 

THE SPECIAL CUSTOM BINDING IS IN FULL LEATHER (VERY SMOOTH) WITH RIBBED SPINE AND GILT LETTERING. MARBLE ENDPAPERS. A LOVELY BOOK.


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