Le Homme d'Arbres
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I Think "The Pioneers" is rather nice. Poetic, naturalistic discriptions really stood out to me. Good book all around. Cooper captures the early American writers fasination with nature - for at the time, that was all we had. Early America never had a "Shakespeare," instead we were given our mountains and wonderful wild-lands.... and Poe, Irving....