Larger	The Pathfinder : Or The Inland Sea (Penguin Classics) Author: James Fenimore Cooper, Kay Seymour House
	Book Information Publisher: Penguin Classics Book Type: Paperback Rating: 2 ISBN-13: 9780140390711 - ISBN-10: 0140390715 Publication Date: 9/1/1989 Pages: 512

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.