Description: THIS ITEM IS THE HALF LEATHER HARDBACK BOOK & MARBLED PATTERN TO COVERS AND MARBLED OUTSIDE PAGE EDGES - 5 BANDS ON DECORATIVE SPINE LIONEL LINCOLNOR THE LEAGUER OF BOSTON BYJ.F. COOPER NEW EDITION PUBLISHED BYGEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS1866Set in the American Revolutionary War, the novel follows Lionel Lincoln, a Boston-born American of British noble descent who goes to England and returns a British soldier, and is forced to deal with the split loyalties in his family and friends to the American colonies and the British homeland. PLUS THE BOOK IN WITH THIS ONE THE PILOTA TALE OF THE SEA NEW EDITION PUBLISHED BY THE ABOVE WITH SAME YEAR Having drawn on local knowledge and private information for The Spy and on his own boyhood experiences for The Pioneers, it was inevitable that Cooper would seek a way to convert yet another area of his special knowledge into art. His first choice of career had been the U.S. Navy, in which he served as a midshipman from 1808 to 1810.In 1823, Cooper began writing The Pilot, which he saw as a sea novel that seamen would appreciate for its fidelity and yet one that landsmen could understand."Cooper's poetic power is reserved for the sea, which is no backdrop but a separate world with forces and laws of its own. The individuation of the ships, particularly the personification of the Ariel, contributes to the magic, but the exhilaration of the book comes from the triumph of human skill and intelligence over the uncertainties and downright hostilities of a world of waves, winds, and hidden reefs. The land offers neither a comparable challenge nor so heady a victory." -- from the Introduction. 279 AND 288 PAGES RESPECTIVELY FRONT & BACK END PAPERS HAVE FOXING ALSO THE START OF THE PILOT BOOK - INSIDE PAGES ARE CLEAN AND IN NEAR VERY GOOD CONDITION
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