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Les Puritains d'Amérique

Les Puritains d'Amérique

Les Puritains d'Amérique

James Fenimore Cooper

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Editorial:
Prodinnova
Año de edición:
2019
Materia
Aventura
ISBN:
9783967872439
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« C’EST dans une époque reculée des annales américaines qu’il faut chercher les incidents sur lesquels se fonde cette histoire. Un demi-siècle s’était écoulé depuis qu’une colonie d’Anglais pieux et dévoués, fuyant la persécution religieuse, débarquèrent sur le roc de Plymouth. Eux et leurs descendants avaient déjà transformé bien des déserts immenses en de riches plaines et de riants villages. Les travaux des émigrants s’étaient arrêtés au pays qui borde la mer, car la proximité des eaux qui roulaient entre eux et l’Europe semblait leur dernier lien avec le pays de leurs pères et le séjour lointain de la civilisation ; mais le goût des entreprises, le désir de trouver des champs plus fertiles, et la tentation offerte par de vastes régions inconnues qui s’étendaient sur leurs frontières du nord et de l’ouest, engagèrent quelques aventuriers à pénétrer plus avant dans les forêts. Le lieu précis où nous désirons transporter l’imagination de nos lecteurs était occupé par un de ces établissements qu’on peut assez justement appeler les postes avancés de la civilisation dans sa marche conquérante...»

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