Natty bumppo biography of christopher columbus
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Cooper’s Columbus
Robert D. Madison (United States Naval Academy)
Presented at the 5ᵗʰ Cooper Seminar, James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art at the State University of New York College at Oneonta, July, 1984.
Originally published in James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art, Papers from the 1984 Conference at State University of New York College — Oneonta and Cooperstown. George A. Test, editor. (pp. 75-85).
Copyright © 1985 by State University of New York College at Oneonta.
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NEARLY five hundred years ago, a long way to the south of us, a religious zealot or geographical monomaniac watched the rays of the rising sun light up the low shores of a scrap of island in a clear turquoise sea. The light of that sunrise has inspired New World dreamers ever since.
That’s a big claim, and perhaps it is true that for over three hundred of those years most of the dreaming was done in Spanish or Portuguese. But when in 1827 an antiquarian in Madrid unearthed a long-lost transcription of Columbus’s own journal of that philosophy-shattering first voyage, one of the fascinated minds was an Anglo-American one — the mind of Washington Irving.
Irving was a moderatel
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Mercedes of Castile, or, the Voyage to Cathay by James Fenimore Cooper: a Critical Edition of the Preface and Chapter 23
Foreword
James Fenimore Cooper is well known as the author of the Leatherstocking Tales, novels which set the character of Natty Bumppo against the backdrop of the American wilderness and various important historical moments in the colonial and founding era. He was also one of the most widely read authors of the early nineteenth century, and through his success helped to promote American literature beyond national borders. Cooper's works have, consequently, received a great deal of editorial attention. Thirty-one out of Cooper's thirty-six titles have been edited according to standards of modern textual criticism for "The Writings of James Fenimore Cooper" or are currently being prepared for inclusion in the series by members of the Cooper Society.
A novel of Cooper's which has not been edited but which is nonetheless a vital member of his corpus is Mercedes of Castile. Published in 1840, Mercedes of Castile is one of Cooper's least-known works. Most students of American literature do not realize that Cooper, along with other notable figures as Washington Irving and William H. Prescott, wrote on the first voyage of Christopher Columbus. The subject was on
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