This book is the first in the famous historical-adventure cycle of five novels by the remarkable writer James Fenimore Cooper, whose main theme was the struggle of Native Americans against American colonizers. The novel’s events take place in the 1740s of the eighteenth century. The hordes of predatory colonizers, cast by the Old World onto the wealthy shores of the New, collided with an ancient race of natives that had created a distinctive form of statehood—and in some places, even a high culture.
Precisely at this time, the exciting adventures of the young hunter Zveroboy (one of the hero’s nicknames) unfold (his full name is Nathaniel Bumppo). He is a hunter and a connoisseur of Indian customs. The first path of war opens for him together with his friend, the Mohican Chingachgook.