The Pathfinder |
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Author:
| Cooper, James Fenimore |
Afterword by:
| Berger, Thomas |
Introduction by:
| Stauffer, John |
ISBN: | 978-0-451-53019-6 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2006 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Signet |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $8.95 |
Book Description:
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Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders and defenceless outposts, The Pathfinder...
More DescriptionVigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful and moral, Natty Bumppo is the prototype of the Western hero. A faultless arbiter of wilderness justice, he hates middle-class hypocrisy. But he finds his love divided between the woman he has pledged to protect on a treacherous journey and the untouched forest that sustains him in his beliefs. A fast-paced narrative full of adventure and majestic descriptions of early frontier life, Indian raiders and defenceless outposts, The Pathfinder set the standard for epic action literature.