TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cooper, James Fenimore,
TI  - The last of the Mohicans
T2  - Wordsworth classics
SN  - 9781853260490
AV  - PS1408 .A1 1992
U1  - 813.2Fic 20
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Ware
PB  - Wordsworth Classics
KW  - French and Indian War (United States : 1754-1763)
KW  - fast
KW  - Mohegan Indians
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - French and Indian War, 1754-1763
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Western stories
N1  - On cover: "Complete and unabridged."; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 

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 Hawk-eye, 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 practices of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.


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