James Fenimore Cooper: The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna

“The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna” (1823) is the earliest written (and fourth in chronological order of events) part of James Fenimore Cooper’s pentalogy about the courageous hunter, guide, and scout Nathaniel Bumppo, known as Leatherstocking, whose youth and mature years the author recounted in the later novels “The Deerslayer,” “The Last of the Mohicans,” and “The Pathfinder.”
The year is 1793, on the shores of Otsego Lake in the state of New York. Seventy-year-old Nathaniel, “one of the first of those pioneers who open up new lands in the country,” is living out his days in a wretched shack with John Mohegan, a heavy-drinking Indian—formerly the noble and brave Delaware chief Chingachgook. However, civilization is rapidly encroaching upon the once-secluded region, and, accused of violating hunting regulations and resisting authorities, having lost his hut in a fire and buried his old friend, Leatherstocking is eventually forced to leave his long-time home to the sound of settlers' axes and head far to the West, under the canopy of the virgin forest that has been familiar to him since his youth…

Author: James Fenimore Cooper 

Translator: Irina Gurova, Natalia Dekhtereva

Pages: 480 (newsprint). Softcover

Dimensions: 180x115x20 mm

Series: Azbuka-Classic