James Fenimore Cooper 
The Monikins (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) 

In this inventive and comical novel—and his first work of satire—James Fenimore Cooper skewers American and British politics. Here is the story of Sir John Goldencalf, member of British society, and American Captain John Poke, as they accompany four highly intelligent, and conversant, monkeys back to their homeland.

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