The last of the Mohicans

Summary: This novel, the second of Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales, has captured the imagination of generations since first published in 1826 against the wild landscapes of North America, at the novel's conception the celebrated "Massacre" of British troops and their families by allies of the French in 1757. Aroung this historical event Cooper's romatic fiction of captitivity, sexuality and heroism in which the lives of the Mochican Chingachogook and his son Uncas is inseparable intwined with the lives of Alica and Cora Munro and Hawk-eye the frontier scout. - Back cover

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