Description: [NAVAL LORE, MARITIME NOVELS, SETS, SAILING, SEAL HUNTING]COOPER, James Fenimore (Author) "THE SEA LIONS; The Lost Sealers" New York. Stringer & Townsend. 1849. First American Edition. Two volumes bound in one. Octavo. Bound in full dark brown sheep. Black & gilt spine labels. Overall, very good or better. 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. 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, recognize one of his happiest."Please email any questions -
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Topic: Literature
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
Subject: Americana
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
