James Fenimore Cooper

Ce roman a pour th tre l'Am rique du Nord, pendant la guerre de Sept Ans. Les affrontements entre Fran ais et Anglais en forment la toile de fond. Cooper d crit notamment la bataille de Fort William Henry qui oppose, en juillet et ao t 1757, les troupes du g n ral fran ais Montcalm (et de ses alli s am rindiens) celles du colonel britannique Munro.

L'auteur nous d peint, l' poque o la Louisiane fut r unie aux Etats-Unis, la vie pastorale et demi nomade des Am ricains qui viennent s' tablir dans la r gion. La famille d'Isma l Bush se d place toujours plus loin dans la Prairie, fuyant la civilisation. Elle retient prisonni re une jeune Espagnole, In s, qui a t enlev e le jour m me de son mariage avec Middleton, officier am ricain, envoy pour occuper la Louisiane. Middleton r ussira la retrouver, gr ce Paul, le chasseur d'abeilles, H l ne, la ni ce d'Isma l qui aime Paul, au vieux docteur Battius, naturaliste et au personnage embl matique de ce cycle, le vieux trappeur Natty Bumppo, qui est maintenant un vieil homme, errant dans la prairie, toujours accompagn de son chien Hector. Ils devront affronter les Dahcotahs et les Pawnies-Loups, deux tribus d'indiens ennemies.

Ce roman raconte la vie d'Harvey Birch, espion de George Washington, lors de la guerre de 1776, en Am rique opposant la domination anglaise aux Am ricains cherchant leur ind pendance. Apr s une vie pleine de p rip ties, nous retrouvons notre h ros trente trois ans plus tard, lors d'une autre guerre entre anglais et am ricains, o il trouvera la mort.

Prærien er siste bok i Lærstrømpe-serien. Her møter vi for siste gang Coopers helt fra den amerikanske pionértiden, som vi tidligere har truffet på under navn som Haukøye, Hjortedreper og Stifinner. Nå i sitt seksogåttiende år befinner han seg på prærien. Her frister han en skrinn tilværelse som navnløs fangstmann og uten forventninger om annet enn sin forestående død. Men livet gir nye utfordringer da en gruppe nybyggere trenger inn på siouxindianernes territorier, og vår hovedperson får en ny rolle å spille - som kjentmann, megler, strateg og redningsmann. James Fenimore Cooper tilhører både den amerikanske og verdenslitteraturens kanon. Med sin særpregede fortellerstil, hvor historiske og filosofiske emner forenes i en spenningsfylt og medrivende handling, har han hatt et stort nedslagsfelt til alle tider og i alle aldersgrupper. Hans innflytelse på verdenslitteraturen er betydelig, og kan spores hos forfattere som Turgenjev og Balzac. Dette er den første komplette utgaven av Prærien på norsk. Oversatt av Christian Heyerdahl.

Ned Myers is a classic sea adventure biography by James Fenimore Cooper. It is an old remark, that the life of any man, could the incidents be faithfully told, would possess interest and instruction for the general reader. The conviction of the perfect truth of this saying, has induced the writer to commit to paper, the vicissitudes, escapes, and opinions of one of his old shipmates, as a sure means of giving the public some just notions of the career of a common sailor. Ned Myers (born 1793) was an American sailor. Born in Quebec as a British subject, Myers grew up in Halifax after being abandoned by his father. He moved to New York City at the age of eleven, cherishing the dream of becoming a sailor. Two years later, while serving aboard the merchant ship Sterling, Myers would meet James Fenimore Cooper, who would later write a biography of him titled Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast (1843). Myers rejected his status as a British subject and became an American citizen, something that would cause him trouble when he was captured by a Royal Navy warship in the summer of 1812. He was a survivor of the sinking of the USS Scourge. However, Myers would live through the War of 1812, meeting with Cooper in 1843 for the authoring of his biography.

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