The Pioneers

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THE
PIONEERS
The Pioneers is set in a time of transition. The forests still abound with deer, passenger pigeons darken the sky, fish teem in the lakes and streams —but over the wilderness falls the ever-lengthen-ing shadow of civilization. Natty Bumppo, the Leatherstocking, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed for so long becomes private property, and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature. His struggle to retain his fiercely cherished freedom helps shape a drama of conflicting human values, and an unsparing, often caustic, delineation of frontier society. The most realistically written of the Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers combines unrivaled descriptive power with an abiding concern for complex social and moral questions; it offers an enthralling re-creation of a colorful, exciting, and enduringly significant era of our history.As Robert E. Spiller writes:" .the reader moves back in time to an era in our history... Tovább

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THE
PIONEERS
The Pioneers is set in a time of transition. The forests still abound with deer, passenger pigeons darken the sky, fish teem in the lakes and streams —but over the wilderness falls the ever-lengthen-ing shadow of civilization. Natty Bumppo, the Leatherstocking, now on the threshold of old age, finds his way of life challenged as the land he has roamed for so long becomes private property, and the laws of man supplant the laws of nature. His struggle to retain his fiercely cherished freedom helps shape a drama of conflicting human values, and an unsparing, often caustic, delineation of frontier society. The most realistically written of the Leatherstocking Tales, The Pioneers combines unrivaled descriptive power with an abiding concern for complex social and moral questions; it offers an enthralling re-creation of a colorful, exciting, and enduringly significant era of our history.As Robert E. Spiller writes:" .the reader moves back in time to an era in our history that only an imagination like Cooper's could recreate. Characters come to life in their responses to nature in both her savage and her grander moments we can be grateful for Cooper's total sense of the stuff of which the Americari people are made, as well as for his power of expression »that has preserved so much of our 'usable past' for our present enrichment."
With an Afterword by Robert E. Spiller Vissza