The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth

by Martin Barker and Roger Sabin

Book Overview

There are few people for whom the phrase "last of the Mohicans" does not conjure up memories and associations--childhood games, films, TV programs. Yet most who profess acquaintance with Cooper's title actually have never read his book. The characters--Hawkeye and his Mohican friends Chingachgook and Uncas--owe more to the media than to Cooper's text for their popularity. But they have become familiar icons identified with the colonizing of the northeastern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878058591
• ISBN13: 9780878058594
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9"