Notions of the Americans by James Fenimore Cooper - 9781108003858

Notions of the AmericansPicked Up by a Travelling Bachelor\nAuthor(s): James Fenimore Cooper\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108003858, 978-1108003858\nSynopsis\nThe 'Travelling Bachelor' who is named as author on the original title page of this two-volume work is in fact James Fenimore Cooper [tel], best remembered today as the writer of The Last of the Mohicans [tel], 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.