The Last of the Mohicans (Collins Classics)
By (Author) James Fenimore Cooper
HarperCollins Publishers
William Collins
17th March 2011
8th July 2010
United Kingdom
Paperback
432
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 27mm
240g
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Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.
Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Coopers story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas.
Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.
James Fenimore Cooper was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS is considered his masterpiece.