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James Fenimore Cooper
THE SEA LIONS; or, THE LOST SEALERS Dodo Press. 2007. 412 pages. Paperback. ISBN-10: 1406555991 Reviewed by Patrick Killough (1) biblio.com 11/17/2010 Would you recommend this book to other readers? Yes. * * * * * review: For a laconic but spot-on description of James Fenimore Cooper's late sea adventure novel THE SEA LIONS, I cannot improve on that given on the Cooper Society Website. It reads: "1849
The Sea Lions; or, The Lost Sealers. 1819-20: Long Island and
Antarctica; polar adventure and religious regeneration."
The novel begins in September 1819 in a coastal whaling town at the eastern end of Long Island, New York. Its story climaxes there in April 1821, although the briefly sketched lives of hero, heroine and a simple Godly sailor man remain intertwined for nearly another three decades. Weeks earlier, an ailing old whaler named Thomas Daggett had been dropped off by a sailing ship. Tom remains in very ill health and relies on local paid-for charity for lodging and for whatever other care he might get. His plan is to be transported 100 miles east, to die among kinfolk in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Ichabod Pratt, prosperous lay deacon of a New England Puritan sect powerful in those parts, manages to pry from the dying Tom Daggett secret information about a fabulous seal-rich island near the Antarctic Circle south of Cape Horn. Pratt also learns latitude and longitude of pirate treasure buried on a key in the West Indies. The Deacon's besetting, soul-destroying sin of covetousness drives the plot. He purchases a small, 140 ton vessel to be built to go in search of both whale oil, seals and buried treasure. Pratt names as master of his vessel, the "Sea Lion," an impressive neighbor, 26 year old Roswell Gardiner. The Deacon's long orphaned 19-year old niece Mary has turned down 20 proposals of marriage by 26-year old Roswell on religious grounds. For Mary believes that Jesus is God and Roswell does not. On all other points of Christian theology they are one. After old Tom Daggett dies, a nephew from Martha's Vineyard, Captain Jason Daggett, who has heard rumors of Tom's treasures, collects old Tom's charts (partly but clandestinely obliterated by the Deacon), from a battered sea chest in the care of Deacon Pratt. He gathers a crew of his own and shadows young Gardiner in a twin ship also called "Sea Lion" down into Antarctic waters. Both ships become avoidably trapped in the ice and their crews of around 30 men spend the winter of 1820-21 trying with far from complete success to stay warm and alive. Despite privations, Captain Roswell Gardiner keeps Sabbath, reads the Bible Mary gave him (with key underlined passages) and debates God's Providence and the Incarnation of the Son of God with simple boatsman Stephen SImpson. Roswell's abiding difficulty is: "believing
in a Deity he could not comprehend; meaning merely that his reason must
be satisfied in a doctrine like that of the Incarnation" (Ch.
25).
Some of the sealers return to Long Island in 1821 just in time for Roswell Gardiner to reach the deathbed of Deacon Pratt as his greedy relatives gather to see if he has left a will. I pray that this sketch is enough to help you decide if you want to read THE SEA LIONS. I hope that you do. The descriptions of life of sealers trapped near the Antarctic Circle are enough to make me thankful for my warm home. Theology (an intricate Christian apology for belief in Jesus as the atoning Son of God and in God's Providence) is extensively discussed and is integral to the plot. -OOO- http://www.biblio.com/books/151230517.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= (2) lunch.com 11/18/2010 name of review: 1819: when a man's "success in taking the whale" made young women's hearts beat faster rating: * * * * review: James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851) wrote two sea adventure novels (a genre he had invented in 1824 with THE PILOT starring real naval hero John Paul Jones) about young lovers separated by religious beliefs. The first novel was THE WING AND WING (1842) set in the warring waters around 1799 Italy. The second was THE SEA LIONS, or THE LOST SEALERS (1849), played out 1819 - 1821 between Long Island and the Antarctic. "The Sea Lions" are, curiously, the names of two small virtually identical 140 ton schooners made within weeks of each other at the eastern end of Long Island in 1819. One Sea Lion shadows the other down to the Antarctic Circle to share in harvesting a vast supply of tame seals and walruses on a virtually unknown island far south of the tip of South America. The rival vessels, though too small to be conventional whalers, do manage en route to the Antarctic, to find a large herd and to fill many a barrel with oil of the sperm whale. At one time author Cooper, himself a former US Naval Officer, owned profitably a whaling vessel based on Long Island. in THE SEA LIONS Cooper recreates the atmospherics around Sag Harbor and other whaling communities of Suffolk County, Long Island just before the great international boom decades in demand for whale oil. Champion whalers' fame was then entirely local. But "it
was just as natural that the single-minded population of that part of
Suffolk should regard the bold and skilful harpooner or lancer with
favor, as it is for the belle at a watering-place to bestow her favors
on one of the young heroes of Contreras or Cherubusco" (battles
of the 1846 -1848 US war with Mexico) (Ch. 1).
On Oyster Pond Point lived affluent lived childless widower Deacon Ichabod Pratt and his orphaned 19-year old niece and ward Mary. Also based there: impoverished scion of an ancient local founding clan, 26 year old mariner, Roswell Gardiner. All three adhered to a rigid Puritan sect imported from neighboring New England. -- The Deacon was a practiced Pharisee in religion, with the besetting sin of covetousness or greed for money. He even kept a daily account of how much he had expended over the past ten years on Mary, $1,000! -- Mary was pious, kindhearted and charitable where her uncle was stingy. She loved, but had rejected twenty marriage proposals from, -- Roswell Gardiner, recently made Captain of her uncle's new vessel, The Sea Lion. There is only one point of religious difference between the young lovers: was Jesus God or not? Captain Gardiner, (pronounced Gar'ner) proud lover of reason and philosophy, would not worship a man-God he could not understand. Jesus was selected by God to atone for the sins of Adam and mankind. But he did not have to be divine to do that. Therefore he was not divine, reasoned honest Roswell. Given the conventions of novel writing of the 1840s, the odds are prima facie great that Mary and Roswell will eventually wed -- we can assume this from the beginning -- but not before they are both of the same mind regarding the dogma of the Incarnation. Quite the religious plot propeller! Be it mentioned, however, in passing: Cooper had surprisingly resolved the religious differences in his earlier THE WING AND WING by killing off the light-hearted atheist sea captain and having his pious Catholic lover then enter a convent. *** The Deacon has come to possess two old charts in whose truth he passionately believes: the location of a hidden Antarctic island full of sea lions and sea elephants and a West Indies cove with buried pirate treasure. He buys a ship and sends Captain Gardiner to find both and make the greedy Deacon even wealthier than he already is. But another sea captain, Jason Daggett of Martha's Vineyard, also knows about the charts and is determined to grow rich from seals and pirate treasure. Lacking the latitudes and longitudes known to the Deacon, Daggett decides to build his own ship and shadow Captain Gardiner into both the Antarctic and the West Indies and make him share his finds. Eventually, Gardiner determines to shake off Daggett, but does not entirely succeed. Wily Daggett behaves well when the two captains and crews dispute the capture of a mighty sperm whale and this disposes Gardiner imprudently (from the point of view of profits for Deacon Pratt) to trust the Martha's Islander. This kindly mistake leads Gardiner to stay too long on the sealing grounds in order generously to help late arriving Daggett fill his hold with hides. Result: both ships and crews spend a winter trapped in the ice. The scenes of suffering through winds, snow, ice and hunger and general coping with fate are unforgettable. I will not spoil the novel's ending for you by saying more. This is a far better than average novel. I would rate it 4.4 stars, rounding down to 4.0. It is not only a sea and ice adventure. The novel is also religious, in the spirit of Thornton Wilder's THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY or Graham Greene's THE END OF THE AFFAIR. The great overriding theme is God's Providence, its role in human history and especially in the buffeted lives of our hero Captain Gardiner and his wily opponent Captain Daggett, as well as in the lives of heroine Mary Pratt and her miserly, covetous uncle the deacon. I hope that you will enjoy this one. -OOO- http://www.lunch.com/EditReview?id=1666289 =-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= (3) bn.com 11/18/2010 title of review: A woman's thoughts and prayers lead her man to the Son of God rating: * * * * review: THE SEA LIONS is a religious novel. As much so as Thornton Wilder's THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY or Graham Greene's THE HEART OF THE MATTER. Some background: The year is 1819. 19-year old Mary Pratt loves 26-year old Roswell Gardiner (pronounced around Sag Harbor, Long Island where both live as "Gar'ner"). Both are orphans. Their social standing is similar, though she is the ward of her uncle Ichabod Pratt, a well off, miserly lay deacon of the New England Calvinist sect that both belong to. Since 1639 Lion Gardiner, young Roswell's ancestor and other Gardiners have flourished in this part of Nassau Island (as once styled by the Dutch). But Roswell has been at sea since age 15. His reputation as mariner and whaler is high among his neighbors. By story's beginning, Roswell has proposed marriage 20 times to Mary and will do so once more before he sails off to a secret whaling ground in the Antarctic known only to the ship-owning deacon. The lovers' theology agrees in almost all points, including the belief that Jesus's "blood had purchased the redemption of his race!" (Ch. 2). But Roswell did not see that it was either necessary or possible for Jesus the redeemer to be the Son of God, second person of the Blessed Trinity. As Cooper notes, it happens often enough that a pious woman will marry an unbelieving or less believing man while redoubling her prayers that in time God will soften her spouse's heart. Not so Mary Pratt! She appreciates Roswell's candor (they attend the same church where even the pastor at times seems to incline toward Roswell's Unitarian view). But she will not marry him: a man who proudly insists that he cannot worship a God-man whom he cannot comprehend. Months later, even before the deacon's ship, the Sea Lion, is trapped by ice on the great seal island where his appointed master, Gardiner, has harvested a full hold of skins, Roswell falls increasingly under the religious influence of a simple oarsman named Stephen Simpson. Simpson knows that Mary has given Roswell a Bible with underlined passages bearing on the Incarnation of Jesus of Nazareth and that Roswell had promised to read it every day. Simpson persuades his captain that, laborious seal trapping notwithstanding, the Sabbath should be set aside as a day of rest. Roswell agrees on philosophical pragmatic grounds. Eventually, when life itself seems dubious, a frozen night's discussion with Simpson converts the Captain to belief in Trinitarian Incarnation. Stephen:
"A
Deity I could understand would be no God for me." A bit later "that idea of the Creator's being
incomprehensible to the created recurred to him. The hour that
succeeded was probably the most important in Roswell Gardiner's life"
(Ch. 25).
And what led to this moment? Mary Pratt's never ceasing prayers and thoughts directed wherever the 140 ton Sea Lion might be. "These are woman's means of exerting
influence, and who shall presume to say that they are without results,
and useless?" (Ch. 2)
THE SEA LIONS, for all its theology, is a grand sea adventure tale. Also a tale of lust for treasure. A tale of the Anarctic, of whales, seals and walruses and the unspeakably cold winds and of months when ice traps American seaman struggling to stay warm and avoid starvation. I have given you a mere glimpse of the tip of an iceberg of the plot. And real, dangerous icebergs await your shivering, ice encrusted lashes and brows should you open the pages of THE SEA LIONS. -OOO- recommended reading: -- Thornton Wilder - THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY, -- Graham Greene - THE END OF THE AFFAIR, THE HEART OF THE MATTER, THE POWER AND THE GLORY. http://my.barnesandnoble.com/communityportal/ review.aspx?reviewid=1481253 =-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= (4) amazon.com 11/19/2010 title of review: New Englanders have "an indisposition to part with anything without a quid pro quo" rating: * * * * review: At least three persons in James Fenimore Cooper's 1849 novel, THE SEA LIONS or THE LOST SEALERS are seriously religious. Indeed, so much so that, if you take away the intensely, dogmatically religious dimension, you have the plot of a very different, secular novel. How so? First of all, the young hero and heroine would have married before the novel began, perhaps even be parents. Both are orphans, attend the same church and have similar social backgrounds. They are Roswell Gardiner (26) and Mary Pratt (19). It is the summer of 1819 and both live in a whaling community near Sag Harbor on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York. An ancestor of Roswell had acquired nearby Gardiner Island by royal grant in 1639. But Roswell Gardiner is poor and has been a seaman since he was 15. Mary's Pratt family are solidly respectable, yet without the cachet of the Gardiner pedigree. Orphaned at age nine, Mary was raised by her father's widowed younger brother Ichabod, a lay deacon of the main local church, an alien New England Calvinist import from nearby Connecticut into originally Dutch, then English New York. When the Deacon dies, Mary might inherit an estate worth $30,000. But the stingy Deacon keeps postponing writing his will; and other relatives and his pastor will draw near his deathbed to assert their rights What drives THE SEA LIONS is the New England avarice and love of money of Deacon Pratt. Somewhat improbably the Deacon has found out the locations of both a secret seal breeding island on the edge of the Antarctic Circle south of Cape Horn, as well as a West Indies key on which pirate treasure has been hidden. Feverish for wealth, the Deacon purchases a newly built 140 ton vessel, THE SEA LION, and sends her in search of seals and gold, with 13 seaman, two mates and son-in-law Roswell Gardiner as her master. The voyage grows dangerous when another sea captain, Jason Daggett of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, finds out about the Deacon's quest. Daggett has a second "Sea Lion" built and shadows Captain Gardiner down into icy Antarctica. Through human error, Daggett's greed and Gardiner's soft-heartedness for his late arriving, unscrupulous rival, both ships and 31 men linger too long, become trapped in the ice and spend a hungry, dangerous, dark winter in close proximity. The oldest seaman hired by Captain Gardiner is Stephen Stimson. He had once survived a similar ice-bound winter on Tierra del Fuego. Stimson's wise counsel is followed by his captain. Otherwise all 31 would have frozen to death. Nearly half the men do die in any case. Eventually, however, Roswell's Sea Lion escapes, heavily laden, finds the buried pirate treasure and returns to Long Island. A dying Deacon Pratt, greedy till the end, clasps a bag of pirate doubloons to his chest, gasps and dies. Mary persuades Roswell to give up the sea. The couple move west across the Empire State and prosper for the next 30 years. The most tragic figure of THE SEA LIONS, Deacon Ichabod Pratt, embodies everything that author James Fenimore Cooper hated about the pesky New Englanders becoming daily more prominent in his beloved New York. Like most of the people in Long Island's Sussex County, Deacon Pratt's Puritan ancestors were hard core New Englanders, migrants from nearby Connecticut. New Englanders are portrayed by Cooper as stingy as Swiss or Scots. They are ungenerous. They put a dollar value on every human transaction. The Deacon is merely an exteme example of an universal New Englander "indisposition to part with anything without a quid pro quo" (Ch.1). Thus, without her ever having been made aware of it, Ichabod's beloved niece and ward Mary Pratt had, in the years she was raised by him, run up a bill for education, food, etc. amounting to $1,000 at the time of her wedding. In typical New Englander fashion, for this upkeep charge the Deacon had planned Mary's future husband to reimburse him. Except, alas, that young Roswell Gardiner was then worth barely $500. * * * * *
That would be the plot of THE SEA LIONS had Mary Pratt, Roswell Gardiner and Stephen Stimson not been three seriously religious people. Here is the religious addendum from the novel as published: -- Mary's is a thorough Calvinist dogmatic orthodoxy. You don't pick and choose which revealed mysteries to believe. -- But Roswell will only believe a religious dogma if it makes sense to him. Thus he agrees with Mary that God elected to redeem the human race through the voluntary sacrifice of the man Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus, however did not have to be the second person of the Trinity in order to effect God's plan of salvation. Ergo, Jesus was merely human. Mary remains thoroughly Trinitarian. Because of that difference only, she has rejected 20 marriage proposals from Roswell, though she loves him dearly. Roswell agrees to read and ponder daily on his sealing voyage a Bible that Mary gives him, especially, arguably Incarnationist passages underlined by Mary. -- Simple Kennebunkport oarsman Stephen Stimson is Trinitarian, albeit entirely through faith, without breaking his wits to understand the dogma. In Antarctic waters, Stephen grows closer and closer to Captain Gardiner as trusted advisor, mentor and friend. At the height of the short Antarctic summer's seal slaughtering season, Stimson advises Sabbath observance on religious grounds. Gardiner accepts, keeps the Sabbath -- but for his own personal, purely secular, pragmatic reasons (sailors profit from a rest every seven days). But the two men also discuss over and over that difference keeping Mary from marrying Roswell: whether Jesus is God. I won't spoil the outcome of this battle between faith and reason, Trinitarianism and Unitarianism, and fate versus Providence. But if you do not like higher Christian theology, you must be prepared to skip at least 20 densely argued pages of THE SEA LIONS. The winter scenes on the Antarctic Circle are terrifying and very believable. One crew allows its stove to go out, simply because one crewman forgot where he had secured their tinder-box. Your eyelashes and brows will freeze stuck. You will share crippling hunger, fatigue, terror, helplessness. Culpably avoidable delays have kept Captain Gardiner far too long at the sealing grounds, persuaded to stay longer there in order to help his late arriving and wheedling "you owe me one" New Englander rival. Without rising to the level of an immortal classic, THE SEA LIONS is a far better than average sea adventure tale and love story. It is also a serious novel of religion that may make you think of Graham Greene's THE HEART OF THE MATTER, Evelyn Waugh's BRIDESHEAD REVISITED or THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY of Thornton Wilder. I rate THE SEA LIONS 4.4 stars, rounding down to 4.0. -OOO- tags: james fenimore cooper, antarctic circle, religious dogma, whaling, sealing, pirate treasure http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Lions-Dodo-Press/ product-reviews/1406555991/ref=dp_top_cm_cr _acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= (5) epinions.com 11/19/2010 Review Title: A Long Island Puritan Church with a Protestant Jesuit Pastor Product Rating: * * * * PROS: Terrors of an Antarctic winter. A marriage prevented by dogma. Death of a Puritan Pharisee. CONS: Long. Slow. A miser implausibly finds charts revealing an Antarctic sealing island and pirate gold. BOTTOM LINE: A novel far above average quality. Sea adventure. Chase of whales. Slaughter of seals and walruses. Oceans as image of eternity. Is Jesus God? Does fate or Providence drive history? aohcapablanca's Full Review: A Long Island Puritan Church with a
Protestant Jesuit Pastor
by aohcapablanca, Nov 19 '10 Many a grand scene stays with me from THE SEA LIONS, or THE LOST SEALERS, a very late novel by James Fenimore Cooper (1789 - 1851). -- I see 19-year old Mary Pratt rejecting
26-year old Roswell Gardiner's 20th and then his 21st proposal of
marriage. The reason: she believes that Jesus is the Son of God, second
person of the Holy Trinity. Roswell agrees that God chose Jesus to
redeem the human race, but Jesus did not need to be God himself in
order to be the Savior.
-- I recall talkative, cunning old whaling man Tom Daggett. It is the summer of 1819 and Tom's vessel has dropped him off to die in Suffolk County at the eastern end of Long Island. From thence Tom hopes, in vain, to make his way 100 miles east where he can die in peace on Martha's Vineyard among kinfolk he has not seen in 50 years. Unfortunately, Tom's impoverished, helpless plight comes to the attention of wily, Pharisaical lay deacon Ichabod Pratt, young Mary's widowed, childless uncle and guardian. The Deacon winkles out of the dying man not only longitude and latitude but also two detailed charts: one showing the location of a rich Antarctic seal breeding ground, the other a West Indies key where pirate doubloons lie buried. -- I sail south aboard the Deacon's newly bought 140 ton schooner, the Sea Lion. It is doubly orphaned Roswell Gardiner's first command, albeit it he has regularly gone to sea since taken from school at age 15. Roswell, with tragic consequences, is stalked in a twin schooner ominously also dubbed the Sea Lion. It is captained by Jason Daggett. He is old Tom's nephew and heir. And Jason has found out from the Oyster Bay woman who had been paid to lodge and feed his dying uncle nearly as much as the Deacon knew about the seal breeding grounds and pirate treasure. -- I feel relieved when our young hero shakes off his shadow, Daggett, and reaches the sealing grounds plenty early in the Antarctic Circle summer. Captain Daggett, alas, is later spotted only 18 miles away. And gullible, kind-hearted Captain Gardiner not only leads his rival to the sealing grounds but, stupidly in my opinion, agrees to stay on too late in the season so that the second Sea Lion can fill its hull with pelts. -- I shiver with the 31 men aboard the two twin schooners through the ice and blizzards of the dark months when they are trapped in the Antarctic winter of 1820. With some I freeze to death. With others I starve and burn the wood of my vessels for firewood. With Captain Gardiner and a simple but Godly oarsman Stephen Stimson I ponder in strolls under the Southern Cross the role of Providence in human disasters such as theirs and discuss the evidence that Jesus is the Son of God. But most of all I (product of education by Jesuit priests and future priests from grades seven through master's degree) chuckle over one paragraph very close to the novel's end. You probably know that novelist, historian and biographer James Fenimore Cooper was a New York State patriot and "booster." He hated New England culture with a passion, contrasting its narrow-minded, commercial, money-grubbing avarice with the still easy-going, tolerant Dutch influences of his youth. Deacon Pratt is an extreme example of the worst kind of New Englander (like most people in Suffolk County, the Pratts were long transplanted from Puritan Connecticut just across Long Island Sound.) I leave for your reading pleasure Cooper's Long Island version of the Ebenezer Scrooge whom Dickens had introduced to the world six years earlier. The hypocritical Deacon was thought to be wealthy by local standards, with an estate worth $20,000, maybe as much as $50,000. And no one, not his doctor, not his pastor, not his brother and sister, not a flock of cousins had -- so far as anyone knew -- been able to persuade the miser to write a proper, legally binding will. If he had not signed a testament, then New York common law would assure each relative (although not the pastor) an attractive share of the estate. As Deacon Pratt lay dying in the spring of 1821 interested parties were thick about his sickbed. It turns out that he had in fact quietly signed a last will before trusted, non-family witnesses and had given it wihout clarification to niece Mary, to be handed over as an ordinary letter to young Gardiner should he ever make it back from the Antarctic and the West Indies. If not, niece Mary would be executrix. Mary knew none of this. But Captain Gardiner had in fact just returned and immediately reported the results of his voyage to the Sea Lion's owner. The news promptly killed the old miser. Two days later a brother of the deceased, Job Pratt, nominates himself to find out if there is a will. Certainly pastor Rev. Mr. Whittle, believes there is. For, after all he had drafted one himself and given it to Deacon Pratt to sign. It included an ample bequest to the Deacon's church. But Mary produces the sealed document which both Rev. Whittle and Job Pratt then try to snatch from her, Pratt succeeding. Despite its being clearly addressed to Captain Gardiner, Job Pratt, assisted by two women relatives of the deceased, proceeds to break the seal. Then Roswell Gardiner steps forward, demands the letter and, after some threatening behavior, is reluctantly given it. "Baiting Joe," a simple-minded local fisherman, had witnessed the Deacon's signature. A remark of Joe's now gives the pastor hope. Perhaps the miserly deacon had been too frightened of approaching death to make a proper will. Earlier Pastor Whittle had admitted that he had no proof that the Deacon had signed the draft prepared for him. But so what? Ichabod Pratt had implied that he would sign! And an implied promise is as good as a written will. For the Deacon had listened attentively when detailed by the Pastor the parish's needs. When asked to donate, the Deacon had not said no. Argues Pastor Whittle: "I
regard that as a promise; and, in church matters, one of a very solemn
nature." Q. E. D.
All this provokes author James Fenimore Cooper to explode: "All
the Jesuits in the world do not get their educations at Rome, or
acknowledge Ignatius Loyola as the great founder of their order. Some
are to be found who have never made a public profession of their faith
and zeal, have never assumed the tonsure, or taken the vows"
(Ch. 30).
The reference, of course, is to the widely believed calumny of alleged Jesuit doctrines of the morality of mental reservations, evasions, hair splitting and general pursuit of ostensibly good ends by dubiously ethical means. Deliciously jesuitical is this passage! This book easily passes my test for a literary classic: it begins well and then brings more delight and wisdom with every re-reading. Cooper's sea novel is not as good as Melville's MOBY-DICK or as funny as Waugh's THE LOVED ONE. But it is far, far above your average novel of any century. I rate it 4.4 stars, rounding down to 4.0. I predict that you will enjoy reading THE SEA LIONS. -OOO- Recommended: Yes. http://www0.epinions.com/review/The_Sea_Lions_by_James_ Fenimore_Cooper/content_531604541060/show_~allors/pp_ ~1/sort_~date/sort_dir_~des/sec_~ORS_details =-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-= EXTRAS: 1849 The Sea Lions; or, The Lost Sealers. 1819-20: Long Island and Antarctica; polar adventure and religious regeneration. http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/writings/plots/walker-sea.html Cast of Characters:
Baiting Joe, Squire Craft, Betsey Daggett, Captain Jason Daggett, Thomas Daggett, Bartlett Davidson, Jake Davis, Hiram Flint, Primus Floyd, Captain Roswell Gardiner, Timothy Green, Sylvester Havens, Philip Hazard, Jenkins, Jim, Joe, Lee, Cato Livingston, Macy, Catherine Martin, Arcularius Mott, Peter Mount, [Deacon] Ichabod Pratt, Job Pratt, Mary Pratt, Dr. Sage, Sam, Joshua Short, Smith, Robert Smith, Stephen Stimson, Widow Stone, Jane Thomas, Nathan Thompson, Marcus Todd, Watson, David Weeks, Betsy White, Rev. Mr. Whittle. file: cooper_sealions http://www.patrickkillough.com/books/cooper_sealions.html |