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The Last of the Mohicans is a riveting tale set during colonial times, when the French and Indian War is in full swing in the western part of New York. During an attack by the French on a British outpost, two young sisters, Alice and Cora, are guided through the forest by an Indian guide and a British Army Colonel, to find their father. Several strangers they meet along the way join them on their journey which include two Mohican companions, who are the very last of their kind.

Sommer 1757: Im Nordosten Amerikas kämpfen die Truppen der Briten und der Franzosen erbittert um die Vorherrschaft - in einer schier endlosen Wildnis aus Wäldern, Seen und reißenden Flüssen, wo noch die stolzen indianischen Völker beheimatet sind. Ein junger britischer Offizier versucht mit den Schwestern Alice und Cora zu deren Vater ins Fort William Henry zu gelangen.

Represented here are 16 short stories by seven great American writers, dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Different in atmosphere and writing style, they nevertheless caught the mood and concerns of the day in a way that was distinctly American.

Priklyuchencheskiy roman Dzheymsa Fenimora Kupera "Zveroboy " vhodit v ego znamenityy cikl iz pyati romanov, posvyashchennyh istorii kolonizacii Severnoy Ameriki. Tragicheskie sobytiya gibeli indeyskoy civilizacii sluzhat fonom, na kotorom razvorachivayutsya zahvatyvayushchie priklyucheniya ohotnika i sledopyta Natti Bampo, po prozvishchu Zveroboy. Chestnyy i skromnyy ohotnik, vyrosshiy sredi indeycev plemeni delavarov, zhivet odnoy zhizn'yu s prirodoy. Roman povestvuet o yunosti geroya, postepenno prevrashchayushchegosya iz ohotnika v hrabrogo i mudrogo voina. V osnove syuzheta lezhit istoriya Tomasa Hattera i ego docherey, zhivushchih v plavuchem domike na ozere.

James F. Coopers klassischer Abenteuerroman "Der Kaperkapitän" spielt vor dem historischen Hintergrund des Seekrieges zwischen Großbritannien und Frankreich 1793. Vergeblich jagt eine englische Fregatte im Mittelmeer ein französisches Kaperschiff, das vor der Insel Elba aufgetaucht ist. Der Kapitän des Schiffes, Raoul Yvard, der sich wegen seiner Zuneigung zu einem italienischen Mädchen bis in die Nähe der englischen Flotte Admiral Nelsons gewagt hatte, gerät in Gefangenschaft und wird wegen angeblicher Spionage zum Tode verurteilt, ihm gelingt aber die Flucht und die Rückkehr auf sein Kaperschiff. Doch schon bald darauf wird das auf Klippen auflaufende Schiff von den Engländern aufgespürt.

Die Gestalt des Einzelgängers Natty Bumppo, genannt Lederstrumpf, steht für den vorbildhaften Frontiersman der amerikanischen Pionierzeit...

Ein spannendes Abenteuer-Hörspiel bei den Indianern in der Wildnis in 6 Kapiteln...

Waldläufer Natty Bumppo, auch "Lederstrumpf" genannt, kann in letzter Sekunde einem Überfall der Irokesen entkommen, doch seine Gefährten geraten in Gefangenschaft. Zusammen mit Chingachgook, dessen geliebte Wah-ta-Wah ebenfalls von den Irokesen entführt wurde, macht er sich auf, die Gefangenen zu befreien.

Als der junge Offizier Heyward die beiden Töchter des Kommandanten ins Fort bringen soll, wir der von dem Waldläufer Natty Bumppo und seinem Freund Chingachgook vor einem Hinterhalt der Indianer gewarnt. So gelangen sie sicher zum Fort, doch dann werden die Mädchen von Indianern entführt. Natty und Chingachgook versuchen sie zu retten.

"The Last of the Mohicans" tells the story of Cora and Alice Munro, struggling to be reunited with their father, an English commander...

The Last of the Mohicans is an epic story of romance and adventure on the American frontier. It is a story of love and loyalty and of America's coming of age. While the French and Indians besiege Fort William Henry, Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of the English commander, are on their way to join him. They are accompanied by Major Duncan Heyward, Alice's fiancé, and by the treacherous Indian Magua, who secretly serves the French.

L'ultimo dei Mohicani è un romanzo d'avventura scritto da James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) e pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1826. Fu il romanzo più letto al suo tempo ed è oggi considerato il suo romanzo migliore.La storia è ambientata nel 1757, nella “guerra dei sette anni” che vide i Francesi strumentalizzare, nella loro guerra contro gli Inglesi per il predominio in alcune colonie, alcune tribù dei nativi americani.

A story of a well-reputed crew who is faced with repelling the efforts of a group of pirates. Teamwork would win the day, and the narrative of the moment by moment skirmish makes for a delightful tale from a classic author. Narrated by Glenn Hascall.

This is a story from the More Classic American Short Stories collection.

Here are eight stories from master American writers of the 19th century. They vary from sinister tales by Ambrose Bierce - why is that window boarded up? - and a reflective moment in the life of a woman without children, but forced to look after children, to classic short stories by O. Henry and Stephen Crane. There is even an elegiac description of an eclipse by James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans.

This famous novel deals with the early frontier period of American history and is set in 1757 during the Seven Years War between the French and the British. Hawkeye and his friends, Chingachgook and Uncas, are the last remaining Mohican chieftains. When the evil Magua threatens the life of an innocent English woman, Hawkeye finds himself at the center of a battle for honor and vengeance.

James Fenimore Cooper was America's first successful popular novelist. Son of the prominent federalist William Cooper, founder of the Cooperstown settlement, James was educated at Yale in preparation for a genteel life as a federalist gentleman. After his father's death in an 1809 duel, Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He turned to writing but his first book, Precaution (1820), was a failure.

The hero of The Pilot - modeled on John Paul Jones - leads the American Navy in dangerous raids on the English coast. James Fenimore Cooper's fourth novel, published in 1823, helped start the genre of sea novels. Cooper's other major works include the renowned Leatherstocking Tales: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prarie, The Pathfinder, and The Deerslayer.

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.

Set in upstate New York on a comfortable estate, the law-abiding family of Mr. Wharton suddenly finds the Revolutionary War at its door. They are an American family with friendly British ties, but they have kept their dual loyalties from affecting their peaceful life, until a secret visit from Wharton's own son, Henry, changes everything