The Last Of The Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper (Paperback, 1992)

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Introduction & Notes by David Blair University of Kent at Canterbury It is 1757 Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain & France struggle for ascendancy Their conflict however overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands & between the native peoples & white colonisers Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative in which Cora & Alice Munro daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war attempt to join their father Thwarted by Magua the sinister ' Indian runner' they find help in the person of Hawkeye the white woodsman & his companions the Mohican Chingachgook & Uncas his son the last of his tribe Cooper's novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain skirmishes treachery & brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists & the native peoples Through the character of Hawkeye Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier & the eclipse of the indigenous cultures