Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury.It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, over
′Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.′Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overt
A simplified retelling of the classic tale set in 1757 about the exploits of Hawkeye, a colonial scout, and his friends, Chingachgook, a chief of the Mohicans, and his son Uncas during the French and
Cooper's most enduringly popular novel combines heroism and romance with powerful criticism of the destruction of nature and tradition. Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in
