[Gutenberg 11409] • The Red Rover: A Tale
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- Authors
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Publisher
- Pearl Necklace Books
- Tags
- adventure , newport (r.i.) -- fiction , classics
- Date
- 1827-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.41 MB
- Lang
- en
• Two of American author James Fenimore Cooper’s seafaring tales are bound together in this Kindle book: The Red Rover & Afloat and Ashore
The Red Rover
The novel follows sailor Dick Fid, free black sailor Scipio Africanus and Royal Navy officer James Wilder as they encounter the famous pirates.
Afloat and Ashore
The adventures of Miles Wallingford, who runs away to sea to become a merchant sailor (not unlike author).
About The Author
James Fenimore Cooper (1789 –1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days. He attended Yale University and served in the U.S. Navy as a Midshipman which influenced his work. While he is remembered for historical novels such as the Leatherstocking Tales, he was a naval historian of considerable integrity.
Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans.
He was ordered to Lake Champlain to serve aboard a gunboat and later assigned to the USS Wasp. Aboard this ship Cooper met his lifelong friend William Branford Shubrick. Cooper would later dedicate The Pilot, The Red Rover, and other writings to Shubrick.