Day 2

What an amazing opportunity I have been given- to come back in time and become a part of the wilderness Cooper wrote of in “The Last of the Mohicans!” I hope that my essay is good enough to be chosen to be featured on Time.com. I am going to work as hard as I can to gather the proof I need to "pitch" the setting of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans" as one of the "Top 50 Most Awe-Inspiring Wild Lands in Literature."

I was able to bring a few items from the 21st Century; I will be travelling with my camera, a sketch pad, and drawing pencils. With these tools I will be able to show a visual representation of the sights I explore, and will have them as a source of inspiration when I return home to write my essay.

I am leaving my "entry spot" now and am entering the wilderness of "The Last of the Mohicans."

Oh My!
The landscape is SUBLIME!
It is exalted, lofty, grand, noble, majestic, divine, and breath-taking.
Yet also,
Vast, great, rugged, dark, gloomy, massive, and at times gothic.

It is beautiful.
It is a force.
It is complex.
It is astounding.

I have run into Uncas, the “Noble Savage” of Cooper’s novel, and he has agreed to show me some of the highlights of this land- areas which Cooper focused on deeply in his novel.