The Last of the Mohicans

Since the first publication in the 1820-1840s to this day, Pentagogy of James Fenimore Cooper about Nathaniel Bampo (also known as St. John"s wort, a falcon eye, a ranger, a long carabiner and a leather stocking) invariably enjoys success all over the world as one of the standards An exciting adventure prose, the plots and characters of which once and forever captivate the reader"s imagination. A clever hunter and a brave warrior, a selfless defender of the weak and oppressed, a leather stocking has long and firmly entered the Pantheon of the most popular heroes of world literature.
The book presents the most famous novel of this famous series-“The Last of the Mogican” (1826), telling about the mature time of Nathaniel’s life and his participation in the events of the Franco-Indian war. Having met the young Kora and Alice on the forest path, the daughters of the British Colonel Manro, who, under the protection of Major Duncan Hayuard, head to the father in the fortelm-Genri Fort, the falcon eye with their friend Chingachguk and his son Unkas are called to accompany the travelers to the destination. This random meeting lays the beginning of a series of exciting and tragic incidents, in which individual fate and historical events are closely intertwined with each other ...
In this volume, the author’s preface and notes for the publication of 1831 were restored, absent in the former domestic publications of the novel. Also, for the first time in Russia, illustrations for the “last of the Mogican”, created by the famous Czech artist Zdenek Burian (1905–1981) are reproduced