Oak Openings
de Cooper, James Fenimore
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 151500614X
- ISBN 13
- 9781515006145
- Librería
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Charles Town, West Virginia: Jefferson Publication, 2015. Assumed First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8 1/2" X 11 1/2. 141 Pages. It ought to be matter of surprise how men live in the midst of marvels, without taking heed of their existence. The slightest derangement of their accustomed walks in political or social life shall excite all their wonder, and furnish themes for their discussions, for months; while the prodigies that come from above are presented daily to their eyes, and are received without surprise, as things of course. In a certain sense, this may be well enough, inasmuch as all which comes directly from the hands of the Creator may be said so far to exceed the power of human comprehension, as to be beyond comment; but the truth would show us that the cause of this neglect is rather a propensity to dwell on such interests as those over which we have a fancied control, than on those which confessedly transcend our understanding. Thus is it ever with men. The wonders of creation meet them at every turn, without awakening reflection, while their minds labor on subjects that are not only ephemeral and illusory, but which never attain an elevation higher than that the most sordid interests can bestow.
Reseñas
El Apr 8 2009, Feeney dijo:
THE OAK OPENINGS by Fenimore Cooper is an astonishingly convincing tale of a fictional religious conversion to evangelical Christianity. A mysterious 50 year old Indian Chief named Scalping Peter, a man of no tribe, crusades for 20 years, with Tecumseh and other Indian nationalists, to indulge in ethnic cleansing before the word was coined. ***
It is 1812 in the oak openings (also known as oak savannas) of western Michigan. Peter has called a meeting of tribes to throw all the whites in Canada and the USA back into the great salt sea (Atlantic Ocean). His hatred of whites is pathological. Whenever he can, he murders them, even infants, and takes their scalps.
But a teenage white woman slowly softens his heart. He begins to think of her as a daughter. Yet she and five other whites are in his power and the assembled chiefs want to kill them all. Two they do kill: a soldier and a Methodist minister who speaks their languages and whose message to them is that they are the ten lost tribes of Israel. Indians do not want to be Jews. They reject his message but before they kill him have him explain the Christian doctrine of loving your enemies. This he does till the very moment of his tomahawking. Reverend "Amen" forgives his murderers and prays for them to God. ***
Beholding the missionary's courage, Scalping Peter has a conversion to at least a starting point of Christianity. He then uses his wits against great odds to save four whites, and is wiling to love his worst enemies white or red -- even Cherokees! ***
Nearly 40 years after novel's beginning an American author interviews Scalping Peter and those Americans he rescued and sees how one Indian's hatred of the whites for stealing Indian hunting grounds has been transformed. The tragedy to the Indians is seen to have been the permissive will of God -- the Manitou, the Great Spirit. These European robbers brought to the Indians the gospel of the Manitou's only Son. A fair trade. ***
In addition to religious conversion, THE OAK OPENINGS tells of a hair-raising 700 mile canoe escape by four whites and two Indians from the pro-British red men seeking their lives. We learn of the art of finding the hives of wild bees and various tricks white and red men play on one another. Something for every reader. But you must from time to time suspend your disbelief. -OOO-
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Detalles
- Librería
- Dons Book Store (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 22449
- Título
- Oak Openings
- Autor
- Cooper, James Fenimore
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade Paperback
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Assumed First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 151500614X
- ISBN 13
- 9781515006145
- Editorial
- Jefferson Publication
- Lugar de publicación
- Charles Town, West Virginia
- Fecha de publicación
- 2015
- Tamaño
- 8 1/2" X 11 1/2
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