Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential
classics. 'Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned
that sometimes they are not.' Set in frontier America in the midst of the
French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort,
Cooper's story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to
find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army
major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a
frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas. Magua
is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the
Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the
brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.