LAST OF THE MOHICANS
From
The Last of the Mohicans, the second of the five novels by Fenimore Cooper
set at the time of the North American colonial wars (1740-1806) come the
adventures of the frontier hero Hawkeye and the noble warriors Uncas and
Big Snake, the last survivors of the noble descendants of the Mohicans.
In the bloody backdrop of the war which rages in the forests and on the
banks of the Great Lakes, the English hunter and the two Mohicans find themselves
involved in conflict with the fierce Huron chief, Magua, and in a story
of impossible love with the young English women Cora and Alice, the daughters
of Colonel Munro, barricaded in Fort Henry and under siege by the French.
Through traps, ambushes, fires, raids, encounters with enemy spies and firefights
with hostile tribes, the three heroes and two girls, accompanied by the
clumsy doctor David Gamut and the bear Nootka, undergo a long journey in
the wilderness, managing to overcome the racial and cultural barriers which
divide them.