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The Deerslayer is the culmination of James Fenimore Cooper's`Leather-Stocking' novels, featuring Natty Bumppo (the deer-slayingyoung frontiersman) and the Mohican chief, Chingachgook. Cooper portraysthe hubris of the conquest of a vast territory.The action takes place during the American wars of the 1740s. Natty andhis friend Harry attempt to save a trapper and two young women, whosefloating fort on Lake Glimmerglass is besieged by the ruthless Iroquois.The tension steadily increases to the poin...

It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt to join their father. Thwarted by Magua, the si...