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The Last of the Mohicans

Cooper, James Fenimore (Book - - 1984)
Average Rating: 2.5 stars out of 5.
The Last of the Mohicans


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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

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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.

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Authors: Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
Statement of Responsibility: James Fenimore Cooper
Title: The last of the Mohicans
Publisher: Pleasantville, N.Y. :, Reader's Digest Association,, c1984.
Edition: Reader's digest ed
Characteristics: 415 p. :,ill. ;,24 cm.
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Dec 19, 2012
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  • 8114Lafcadio rated this: 1 stars out of 5.

Let me start by saying that the movie is not only a slightly different story, the movie is a better story. The characters in the movie have more integrity. Also, the movie didn't spend 100 pages describing sticks. An interesting question surfaced in my original copy of Trivial Pursuit: Who was the first native American author? In classic Trivial Pursuit style, the question is worded accurately, but it is very misleading. It is not asking about the first Native (capital N) American author. It's asking for the first native (lower-case n) American author. James Fenimore Cooper is the answer, because he was born in the United States of America after it was officially known as the United States of America. Any American authors born before him would be considered native colonists who then became citizens of the United States of America. Confusingly, of course, Cooper wrote about Native (capital N) Americans. After reading the answer on the back of the card, it took me quite some time to figure out what the question was really asking. I confirmed it by realizing that older versions of Trivial Pursuit would never have used a term as PC as "Native American."

Aug 21, 2012
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  • Kdmullerspy rated this: 3.5 stars out of 5.

I liked it, but the author could have used more voice

May 01, 2012
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  • Grace_Kalman rated this: 0.5 stars out of 5.

To be brief, the people who died should have lived, and the people who lived should have died. And the writing was stilted and unnatural, but about what I expected from this author. Gack.

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