Leatherstocking tales
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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper. 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...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
The Pathfinder (1840), Cooper's most picturesque novel and the fourth of the five Leatherstocking Tales, is a naval story set on the Great Lakes of the 1750s. Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development.
4) The pioneers
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Natty Bumppo, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed becomes private property and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature.
5) The prairie
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English
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"The sequel to 'The Pioneers' finds Natty going West and opposing the destruction of the land of the animals." "Presents the third in a series of novels in which frontiersman Natty Bumppo, nearing the end of his life, sets off for new adventure in the region of the Great Lakes."