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The Last of the Mohicans
Main entry-name Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851 Title statement The Last of the Mohicans : Complete and unabridged / James Fenimore Cooper Issue data Hertfordshire : Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1992 Phys.des. 407 s. ISBN 1-85326-049-5 Edition Wordsworth Classics Ser.statement/add.entry Wordsworth Classics (Wordsworth Editions Limited) Annotation 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 practises of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures. Zdroj anotace: Web obalkyknih.cz Catal.org. KKD Vyškov Country United Kingdom Language English Database Books 
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