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The Pathfinder James Fenimore Cooper with Special Introduction By Kevin J. Hayes (Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading)
The Pathfinder James Fenimore Cooper with Special Introduction By Kevin J Hayes - Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Author:James Fenimore Cooper In The Pathfinder, James Fenimore Cooper tells a thrilling tale of naval adventure, rival love, and wilderness experience that captures the rough-and-tumble life on the shores of Lake Ontario during the French and Indian War. Cooper is the foremost author of historical romance in American Literature, and The Pathfinder, featuring the beloved cha... more »racter Natty Bumppo, remains one of the finest examples of the genre. The Pathfinder stands alone as an example of Cooper's unique ability to depict how the combination of tenderness and violence brings order to the American frontier.
James Fenimore Cooper:
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) was raised in Cooperstown, New York, the town his father founded. In 1808 and 1809, he served aboard a vessel stationed on Lake Ontario at Oswego, New York. He put his knowledgede of the Great Lakes and seamanship to good use in The Pathfinder, which is set in the same locale. He began writing novels in the 1820's mainly as a financial expedient. A prolific author, Cooper wrote dozens of books in a number of different fields-fiction, history, politics, travel-over the next three decades. He died on September 14, 1861.« less