James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), although brought up in privileged circumstances, became a merchant seaman and served for three years as a midshipman in the Navy. His knowledge of the sea would serve him well, in numerous novels through his long career. But it was in The Pilot that he painted the fullest and most engaging picture of the ocean-going adventurer.

Cooper was prompted by the example of Sir Walter Scott's The Pirate -- a popular novel of merit, but "not strictly nautical, or true in its details." Scott's novel produced in Cooper "a sudden determination to produce a work which, if it had no other merit, might present truer pictures of the ocean and ships."

The Pilot, with its gripping depictions of life on the waves, became a phenomenal success for the author of The Deerslayer and The Pathfinder.

Médium	Knihy Paperback Book (Kniha s mäkkou väzbou a lepeným chrbtom)
Vydané	01. júla 2008
ISBN13	9781606642115
Vydavatelia	Aegypan
Strany	352
Rozmery	152 × 229 × 20 mm · 517 g
Jazyk	Angličtina