The Pathfinder - (The Leatherstocking Tales #3)

James Fenimore Cooper

Signet Classics

2006

448 páginas

14h 56m

ISBN-11: 0451522575_

"The Pathfinder" [or, The Inland sea] (first published 1840) '-' The third novel in James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, starring the heroic 'Natty' Bumppo '-' Vigorous, self-reliant, amazingly resourceful, and moral, Nathaniel 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 defenseless outposts, The Pathfinder set the standard for epic action literature.

|...| Fenimore Cooper undertook a "hazardous experiment" in resurrecting one of his most popular characters, for he had killed off Bumppo in his previous incarnation. This book is noted as a classic account of the American wilderness -- Fashioned from Cooper's own experience as a midshipman on Lake Ontario in 1808-09, the novel revives Natty Bumpo (who had died in The Prairie), and illuminates Cooper's interest in American history with his concern for social development.

|...| Natty Bumpo's adventures are exciting and realistic...