Description: Set during the French and Indian War, this classic historical romance is sureto enchant listeners with its panoramic view of America at its conception.
Brief description:
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), the first major American novelist, was the son of a wealthy landowner who founded Cooperstown, New York. He attended Yale and served in the navy before turning to writing, winning international fame with The Spy (1821). After The Pioneers (1823), public fascination with the character of Natty Bumppo led him to write a series of sequels that gradually unfold the entire life of the frontier scout.
Review Quotes:
"The beauty of the unspoiled wilderness and sorrow at its disappearance, symbolized in Hawkeye's Mohican Indian friends, the last of their tribe, are important themes of the novel."
--Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature