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STORM RIDER
by Yoshimura, Akira
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0151006679
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006670
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harcourt, Inc., 2004. First U.S. Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Akira Yoshimura is the prize-winning author of twenty novels and short-story collections, many of them bestsellers in Japan. STORM RIDER is the fourth of his novels to be translated into English, which also include SHIPWRECKS, PAROLE, and ONE MAN'S JUSTICE. Fine, unread copy, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. L10
Synopsis
Hikotaro is thirteen years old and an orphan, left to a life of adventure at sea. When the merchant vessel he sails on is caught in a violent storm on the Pacific, an American ship comes to the rescue and takes the young boy to San Francisco. With trepidation and hope, the boy-now dubbed Hikozo- accepts his new country. Hikozo soon dreams of returning to his village, but a longen forced Shogunate policy forbids entry to Japanese who have been abroad. Still, he tries, sailing to Hong Kong aboard a ship commanded by the legendary Commodore Matthew Perry, only to be refused and returned to California. There, a wealthy American adopts Hikozo and introduces him to a world of influence and power. Some ten years later, Hikozo finally returns to a Japan stirred into violence by the opening of the country. But America is in the midst of its bloody Civil War, and there is no place he can call home. Yoshimura has created a great sea adventure and historical record of two nineteenth-century countries in the making.
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- Bookseller
- Joe Staats, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11361
- Title
- STORM RIDER
- Author
- Yoshimura, Akira
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151006679
- ISBN 13
- 9780151006670
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- FICTION ACTION ADVENTURE
- Product_type
- 2
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Joe Staats, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Joe Staats, Bookseller
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About Joe Staats, Bookseller
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