Cooper's most famous chapter of the American past is illustrated
with full color plates and black and white line drawings by James
Daugherty. Organization of the color illustrations is confused and
color is muddy. The patterned cloth binding is striking. (Kirkus
Reviews)
Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at
Canterbury. 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 Hawkeye,
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 practises of
the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.
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