James Fenimore Cooper
Author
Lexile measure
1230L
Language
English
Description
The Last of the Mohicans is the second and most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales. Set in 1757 during the fierce French and Indian wars, Cooper's classic novel of adventure follows an adroit scout and his companion as they weave through the lush and spectacular wilderness of upstate New York, fighting to save the beautiful daughters of a fort commander from a treacherous Huron renegade. With its death-defying chases and...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The household of Mr Wharton and his daughters is visited by Mr Harper, an American loyalist; Captain Henry Wharton, the son of the house; and Mr Harvey Birch, suspected of being a British spy. The futures of these characters become inextricably linked as they face the perils of the War of Independence, and the sufferings of the human heart.|Cooper's first major success, The Spy, is also his first book set in the period of the American War of Independence....
Author
Language
English
Description
"'The last of the Mohicans', one of the world's great adventure stories, dramatizes how the birth of American culture was intertwined with that of Native Americans. In 1757, as the English and the French war over American territory, the frontier scout Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo) risks his life to escort two sisters through hostile Huron country. Hawkeye enlists the aid of his Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas, and together they battle deception,...
Author
Language
English
Description
An exciting Revolutionary War tale of double agents and counterespionage in New York State in 1780.
A year after his imitative first novel Precaution (1820) enjoyed only modest success, James Fenimore Cooper penned The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground, a Revolutionary War narrative initiating the American historical romance, a novel and a genre that quickly put to rest the British critic Sydney Smith's 1820 quip, "In the four corners of the globe,...
6) The prairie
Author
Pub. Date
1954
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Taking place just a few years after the Louisiana Purchase, The Prairie follows Ishmael and Esther Bush as they travel west from the Mississippi River with their fourteen children, Ellen Wade, a doctor, and Esther's brother. While searching for a place to camp, the group meets Natty Bumppo, a legendary man now in his late eighties. Referred to as "the trapper" Natty helps the family settle somewhere safe. Later, as he roams through the forest, he...
Author
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
v, 444 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An exciting tale of nautical adventure on the waters of colonial New York Harbor.
Chiefly set on the waters and islands of New York Harbor in the early years of the 1700s, James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Water-Witch (1830) paints a vivid picture of life in the little colonial port. It was familiar territory for Cooper, who a century later had served as a junior officer on board an eighteen-gun sloop-of-war stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That...
Publisher
Saddleback Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (61 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Uses a comic book format to present the story of Hawkeye, a colonial scout in the third year of the French and Indian War, and his friends, Chingachkook, a chief of the Mohicans, and Chingachkook's son, Uncas, who risk their lives to guide two English sisters through hostile territory and evade the Huron, Magua, who is determined to destroy them.
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 371 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated edition of the American classic in which Hawkeye, a scout, and his Mohican companions, Chigachgook and Uncas, lead a small band of Americans fleeing from the British and their Indian allies during the French and Indian War.