The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
1826
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
1826
The most electrifying frontier novel ever written begins in the summer of 1757, when the forests of upper New York burn with war. Hawkeye, a white woodsman raised among the Mohicans, and his two loyal friends, Chingachgook and Uncas, the last of a proud tribe, guide the beautiful Munro sisters through a wilderness crawling with hostile French allies, renegade Indians, and the ever-present shadow of death. Their guide is Magua, a treacherous savage whose smile hides a knife. What follows is a cascade of ambush, betrayal, captivity, and desperate courage that builds toward a climax of staggering tragedy. Uncas dies. The Mohicans fall. The old wilderness gives way to the advancing tide of civilization, and Cooper writes this vanishing with a grief that still resonates two centuries later. This is adventure literature that understands what it has lost.
