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Samurai William : the Englishman who opened Japan / Giles Milton.
LIBRA - Special DS869.A3 M54 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Milton, Giles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adams, William, 1564-1620.
- Adams, William.
- Relations.
- Pilots and pilotage.
- British.
- Japan--Officials and employees, Noncitizen--Biography.
- Japan.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Officials and employees--Japan--Biography.
- British--Japan--Biography.
- Pilots and pilotage--Great Britain--Biography.
- Japan--Relations--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Relations--Japan.
- Japan--Officials and employees, Alien--Biography.
- [eng].
- Local Subjects:
- Adams, William, 1564-1620.
- Pilots and pilotage--Great Britain--Biography.
- Japan--Officials and employees, Alien--Biography.
- Japan--Relations--Great Britain.
- [eng].
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages, 352 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Penguin Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- An engaging and eye-opening story of one of the earliest and most fascinating encounters between East and West. 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.
- Notes:
- Illustrated title page.
- "Published in Penguin Books 2004."
- Originally published: Samurai William: the adventurer who unlocked Japan. Hodder & Stoughton, 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-337) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0142003786
- 9780142003787
- OCLC:
- 53973934
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