Ce texte fait partie du « Roman de Bas de Cuir », vaste épopée en cinq volumes qui nous narre la conquête de l'Ouest, les guerres entre les indiens et la blancs, les pionniers, pendant la seconde moitié du 18e siècle. 

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Le Lac Ontario

Voyageur et marin, James Fenimore Cooper retrace la course-poursuite de deux navires américains, armés pour la chasse au trésor dans les eaux antarctiques. Les voiliers finissent par se perdre. Ce roman a été publié en 1849.

Les lions de mer - Ou le naufrage des chasseurs de veaux marins

Le dernier des Mohicans

It is 1757 and the Seven Years' War, waged between the British and French colonies, has torn across western New York. Colonel Munro, who holds charge of the British Fort William Henry, believes he is sending his daughters away from danger with a Native American escort named Magua. But when Magua abducts the girls, Natty Bumppo, also known as Hawkeye, and his Mohican companions, Uncas and Chingachook, witness the cowardly act and set out rescue the two Munro sisters. James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans remains a highly regarded historical account of colonization in the Americas and the effects of European migration on the indigenous population. While commonly studied in the classroom, Cooper's work has also been adapted for the stage, opera, and film, most famously in the 1992 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

The Last of the Mohicans - Leatherstocking Tales Volume 2

Le Dernier des Mohicans

Le vieux chasseur blanc Natty Bumpo, accompagné de son chien Hector, erre dans la Prairie, ces nouveaux territoires vierges à l'ouest du Mississippi. Il croise en chemin une famille de pionniers, composée d'une vingtaine d'hommes, femmes et enfants, qui semble cacher une créature mystérieuse dans l'un de ses chariots. Des Sioux attaquent le campement au cours de la nuit et volent le bétail, mais grâce à Natty, tous s'en sortent indemnes. Ce n'est que le début d'une série de péripéties qui impliqueront un jeune chasseur d'abeilles, un naturaliste imbu de sa personne, un officier à la recherche de son épouse kidnappée, et des Indiens Pawnees d'une grande noblesse.

La Prairie

Near the centre of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills and dales, or, to speak with greater deference to geographical definitions, of mountains and valleys. It is among these hills that the Delaware takes its rise; and flowing from the limpid lakes and thousand springs of this region the numerous sources of the Susquehanna meander through the valleys until, uniting their streams, they form one of the proudest rivers of the United States. The mountains are generally arable to the tops, although instances are not wanting where the sides are jutted with rocks that aid greatly in giving to the country that romantic and picturesque character which it so eminently possesses. The vales are narrow, rich, and cultivated, with a stream uniformly winding through each. Beautiful and thriving villages are found interspersed along the margins of the small lakes, or situated at those points of the streams which are favorable for manufacturing; and neat and comfortable farms, with every indication of wealth about them, are scattered profusely through the vales, and even to the mountain tops. Roads diverge in every direction from the even and graceful bottoms of the valleys to the most rugged and intricate passes of the hills. Academies and minor edifices of learning meet the eye of the stranger at every few miles as be winds his way through this uneven territory, and places for the worship of God abound with that frequency which characterize a moral and reflecting people, and with that variety of exterior and canonical government which flows from unfettered liberty of conscience.

The Sources of the Susquehanna

Les Pionniers

James Fenimore Cooper 

Texte intégral. Cet ouvrage a fait l'objet d'un véritable travail d'édition en vue d'une édition numérique. Un travail typographique le rend facile et agréable à lire.

Les Pionniers est un roman historique américain publié pour la première fois 1823. Quatrième des cinq ouvrages composant le cycle des Histoires de Bas-de-Cuir (Leatherstocking).

Il fait partie de la saga dont est issu le célèbre Le Dernier des Mohicans.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histoires_de_Bas-de-Cuir

Retrouvez les autre titres de la saga Bas-de-cuir chez votre libraire numérique :

Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 1 -  Le Tueur de daims

Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 2 -  Le Dernier des Mohicans

Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 3 -  Le Lac Ontario

Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 4 -  Les Pionniers

Cycle des histoires de Bas-de-cuir, volume 5 -  La Prairie

Le Lac Ontario

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