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Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
by Milton, Giles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+/VG++/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0340794674
- ISBN 13
- 9780340794678
- Seller
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About This Item
HARDBACK, SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st. Full number line.* Date of Publication: 2002* Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton.* Binding and cover condition: Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. Minimal bumps, no rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head & tail of spine. VG++* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper, magenta and blue-green titles to spine and face. Price clipped, showing no shelf price. Absolutely minimal, slight, some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Black & white illustrated end papers. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & fore-edge, otherwise no visible faults. VG+.* Illustrations: A number of b/w photos plates and illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 371 pp. text. xxviii pp., notes and sources index at rear.* Description: In the winter of 1611, a mysterious letter was received by the London merchants of the East India Company. The fact that it came from Japan, a forbidden and unknown land, was a cause of wonder, but even more remarkable was that the writer was an Englishman by the name of William Adams. Adams had sailed to the East in 1598, but most of his company had died by the time their ship was washed up unexpectedly in Japan. He fell in love with the barbaric splendour of the country and decided to settle. He soon forged a close friendship with the ruthless Shogun Ieyasu, took a Japanese wife and sired a new, mixed-blood family. However his homesick letter to London inspired the merchants to plan an expedition to the Far East, wishing to trade with the Japanese through Adams' good offices.* A NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st/1st fnl. with some minimal faults in a VG+ dust jacket.*
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
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2879
- Title
- Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan
- Author
- Milton, Giles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+/VG++/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0340794674
- ISBN 13
- 9780340794678
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London, UK. 399
- Date Published
- 2002-06-13
- Size
- 13.9 x 20.3 x 3.8 cm
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