The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Action & Adventure

The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Action & Adventure - Paperback

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The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Action & Adventure - Paperback

The Pilot by James Fenimore Cooper, Fiction, Historical, Classics, Action & Adventure - Paperback

by James Fenimore Cooper
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by James Fenimore Cooper (Author)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), although brought up in privileged circumstances, became a merchant seaman and served for three years as a midshipman in the Navy. His knowledge of the sea would serve him well, in numerous novels through his long career. But it was in The Pilot that he painted the fullest and most engaging picture of the ocean-going adventurer.

Cooper was prompted by the example of Sir Walter Scott's The Pirate -- a popular novel of merit, but "not strictly nautical, or true in its details." Scott's novel produced in Cooper "a sudden determination to produce a work which, if it had no other merit, might present truer pictures of the ocean and ships."

Number of Pages: 352
Dimensions: 0.79 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
ISBN9781606642115
Author James Fenimore Cooper
PublisherAegypan
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2008
LanguageENG- English
Pages352
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About James Fenimore Cooper

James Fenimore Cooper was the great professional American author. He was born on Septenber 15, 1789, in Burlington, New Jersey, and grew up in the frontier village of Cooperstown, New Yorrk, in the heart of the wilderness he was to immortalize in his frontier novels. A high-spirited youth, he was expelled from Yale because of a prank and was finally signed by the navy by his strong-willed father. In 1819 a trfling incident repordatly led to the writing of his first book. Reading aloud to his wife from a populr English novel, he exclaimed, "I could write you a better book myself!" The result was Precausion (1820), which followed in 1821 by his first real success, The Spy.

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