| Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor Contributor(s): Cooper, James Fenimore (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108003869 ISBN-13: 9781108003865 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $53.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | United States - General - History | Americas (north Central South West Indies) - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 917.3 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.36 lbs) 492 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), best remembered today as the writer of The Last of the Mohicans (1826), generally regarded as his masterpiece, which has remained in print and been adapted for cinema and television many times. In fact, Cooper was a prolific author of political journalism and travel writing as well as novels. His Notions of the Americans is an epistolary work in which Cooper adopts the persona of a well-travelled European clubman who has decided to explore the United States in the same spirit as that in which the offspring of the British nobility undertook the Grand Tour. Within a light-hearted narrative, Cooper's serious purpose was to reveal the nature of this brand-new nation to his own countrymen as well as to Europeans. |
