Author : James Fenimore Cooper
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534875500
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (755 download)
Book Synopsis The Sea Lions. Complete in One Volume NOVEL By: James Fenimore Cooper (Original Version) by : James Fenimore Cooper
Download or read book The Sea Lions. Complete in One Volume NOVEL By: James Fenimore Cooper (Original Version) written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers is an 1849 sea novel by James Fenimore Cooper. The plot revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice. The novel was first published in two volumes, by Stringer & Townsend. Critic W.B. Gates described the novel as taking inspiration from Charles Wilkes's Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition of the Years 1838-1842. Herman Melville reviewed the novel in 1849 for the magazine The Literary World.[2] Melville's praise for the novel focuses on the action and adventure of the novel, saying, "Upon the whole, we warmly recommend the Sea Lions; and even those who more for fashion's sake than anything else, have of late joined in decrying our national novelist, will in this last work, perhaps, recognise one of his happiest