num_pages: 375
description: 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 on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the 'Indian runner', they find help in the person of Hawk-eye, the white woodsman, and his companions, the Mohican Chingachgook and Uncas, his son, the last of his tribe.Cooper’s novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain, skirmishes, treachery and brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists and the native peoples. Through the character of Hawkeye, Cooper raises lasting questions about the practices of the American frontier and the eclipse of the indigenous cultures.
language: English
title: The Last of the Mohicans
titlecomplete: The Last of the Mohicans
characters: Duncan Heyward, Magua, Colonel George Munro, Chingachgook, Tamenund, General Marquis de Montcalm, Alice Munro, Cora Munro, Uncas, Nathaniel Bumppo, General Daniel Webb, David Gamut
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, War, Adventure, Classic Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 96679
places: Upstate New York, Lake George, New York, New York (State), Fort William Henry, Lake George, North America
series: Библиотека приключений, The Leatherstocking Tales
publisher: Wordsworth Classics