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The Sea Lions. Complete in One Volume Novel (Original Version): By: James Fenimore Cooper by James Fenimore Cooper (Paperback / softback, 2016)

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The Sea Lions; Or, The Lost Sealers is an 1849 sea vel by James Fenimore Cooper. The plot revolves around two sealers stranded in amongst Antarctic ice.The vel was first published in two volumes, by Stringer & Townsend.Critic W.B. Gates described the vel as taking inspiration from Charles Wilkes's Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition of the Years 1838-1842. Herman Melville reviewed the vel in 1849 for the magazine The Literary World.Melville's praise for the vel focuses on the action and adventure of the vel, 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 velist, will in this last work, perhaps, recognise one of his happiest. James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 - September 15, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. His historical romances of frontier and Indian life in the early American days created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York, which was founded by his father William on property that he owned. Cooper was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church and, in his later years, contributed generously to it.He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linian Society, but was expelled for misbehavior.Before embarking on his career as a writer, he served in the U.S. Navy as a Midshipman, which greatly influenced many of his vels and other writings. The vel that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about counterespionage set during the Revolutionary War and published in 1821. He also wrote numerous sea stories, and his best-kwn works are five historical vels of the frontier period kwn as the Leatherstocking Tales. Among naval historians, Cooper's works on the early U.S. Navy have been well received, but they were sometimes criticized by his contemporaries. Among his most famous works is the Romantic vel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.