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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.[2] 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 happiestProduct Identifiers
PublisherCreatespace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN-101534875506
ISBN-139781534875500
eBay Product ID (ePID)224412951
Product Key Features
FormatTrade Paperback (Us) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound, Paperback / Softback
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral & Literary Fiction
AuthorJames Fenimore Cooper
GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Spine13mm
Date of Publication24/06/2016
Content NoteBlack & White Illustrations
Country of PublicationUnited States