The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna, Volumes 1-2 (Everyman) (Bring the Classics to Life: Level 4 (Audio)) (Unexpurgated Start Publishing LLC)

by James Fenimore Cooper

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In this classic novel, James Fenimore Cooper portrays life in a new settlement on New York's Lake Otsego in the closing years of the eighteenth century. He describes the year's cycle: the turkey shoot at Christmas, the tapping of maple trees, fishing for bass in the evening, the marshalling of the militia. But Cooper is also concerned with exploring the development of the cultural and philosophical underpinnings of the American experience. He writes of the conflicts within the settlement itself, focusing primarily on the contrast between the natural codes of the hunter and woodsman Natty Bumppo and his Indian...Read more
  • ISBN10 1345318219
  • ISBN13 9781345318210
  • Publish Date 25 October 2015 (first published 1 March 1964)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Arkose Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 630
  • Language English