Day 6

My stay here is over. What an opportunity I have been given, to travel back to 1757 and see the wilderness Cooper wrote so vividly of. I have seen the peril and darkness as well as the beauty and light this wilderness holds. I hope that the proof I have gathered will be enough to get my essay chosen to grace the Time Magazine website. I want the wilderness I have explored, the wilderness of James Fenimore Cooper's "The Last of the Mohicans," to be one of the "Top 50 Most Awe-Inspiring Wild Lands in Literature.


I think I have gathered some great proof, thanks to my guides Uncas and Chingachgook. I have found aspects of the sublime,as well as elements of beauty. This wilderness is true wilderness, creating a balance that makes it absolutely awe-inspiring!!!



2007, I'm coming home...