The Last Of The Mohicans
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the savage and breathtaking wilderness of colonial America during the French and Indian War of 1757, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the perilous journey of Cora and Alice Munro as they are escorted through treacherous frontier territory by the frontier scout Natty Bumppo — known as Hawkeye — and his two Mohican companions, the noble chief Chingachgook and his son Uncas. Cooper's gripping narrative pitches these characters against the relentless Huron warrior Magua, weaving a tale of desperate survival, impossible loyalty, and doomed love across a landscape as merciless as it is magnificent. Beyond its pulse-quickening adventure, The Last of the Mohicans stands as one of the defining works of American Romantic literature, presenting a profound and elegiac meditation on the collision of civilisations, the erasure of indigenous peoples, and the mythologising of the American frontier. Cooper's vivid, painterly prose — richly atmospheric and steeped in moral complexity — helped establish the archetypal American hero in the figure of Hawkeye, an outsider who belongs to neither world he straddles. This Reader's Digest World's Best Reading edition brings one of history's most enduring adventure classics to a new generation of readers, leaving one haunting question resonating long after the final page: what is truly lost when an entire world disappears?
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the savage and breathtaking wilderness of colonial America during the French and Indian War of 1757, The Last of the Mohicans chronicles the perilous journey of Cora and Alice Munro as they are escorted through treacherous frontier territory by the frontier scout Natty Bumppo — known as Hawkeye — and his two Mohican companions, the noble chief Chingachgook and his son Uncas. Cooper's gripping narrative pitches these characters against the relentless Huron warrior Magua, weaving a tale of desperate survival, impossible loyalty, and doomed love across a landscape as merciless as it is magnificent. Beyond its pulse-quickening adventure, The Last of the Mohicans stands as one of the defining works of American Romantic literature, presenting a profound and elegiac meditation on the collision of civilisations, the erasure of indigenous peoples, and the mythologising of the American frontier. Cooper's vivid, painterly prose — richly atmospheric and steeped in moral complexity — helped establish the archetypal American hero in the figure of Hawkeye, an outsider who belongs to neither world he straddles. This Reader's Digest World's Best Reading edition brings one of history's most enduring adventure classics to a new generation of readers, leaving one haunting question resonating long after the final page: what is truly lost when an entire world disappears?