{"product_id":"2026100012241-secondhand-the-deerslayer-or-the-first-war-path","title":"The Deerslayer: Or The First War-Path","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the breathtaking wilderness of colonial America's Lake Glimmerglass in the 1740s, The Deerslayer: or The first war-path chronicles the coming-of-age of Natty Bumppo — known by his frontier name, Deerslayer — as he embarks on his first war expedition alongside his Delaware companion, Chingachgook, to rescue the latter's betrothed from Huron captivity. James Fenimore Cooper crafts a richly immersive adventure steeped in frontier honour, moral conflict, and the violent collision between European settlers and Native American nations, presenting a young hero who must navigate the twin codes of wilderness survival and personal integrity for the very first time.\n\nThe final instalment of Cooper's celebrated Leatherstocking Tales — though chronologically the first in Natty Bumppo's life — this novel stands as one of the defining works of American Romantic literature, illustrating Cooper's masterful command of landscape as a moral and dramatic force. His prose transforms the untamed forests and silver lakes of upstate New York into a theatre of conscience, where questions of justice, race, and civilisation resonate far beyond the frontier. For any reader who has yet to witness Deerslayer raise his rifle for the first time, the most formative chapter of a legend awaits.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51022613086427,"sku":"2026100012241-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/021fc905-cb91-4d47-8b8a-6e8963e727b9.png?v=1793665310","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012241-secondhand-the-deerslayer-or-the-first-war-path","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}