SAMURAI WILLIAM: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by Milton, Giles
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 096512407X
- ISBN 13
- 9780965124072
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Synopsis
With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg , acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams—the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell’s bestselling novel Shogun). Beginning with Adams’s startling letter to the East India Company in 1611—more than a decade after he’d arrived in Japan— Samurai William chronicles the first foray by the West into that mysterious closed-off land. Drawing upon the journals and letters of Adams as well as the other Englishmen who came looking for him, Samurai William presents a unique glimpse of Japan before it once again closed itself off from the world for another two hundred years.
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- Bookseller
- Russ States (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11-0028
- Title
- SAMURAI WILLIAM: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
- Author
- Milton, Giles
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 096512407X
- ISBN 13
- 9780965124072
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- History, Japan, Christianity, Biography, Great Britain, Catholicism, Protestantism, Foreign Relations, Religion, 16th Century, 17th Century
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