Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by MILTON, GILES
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- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374253854
- ISBN 13
- 9780374253851
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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
- Mark Post, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29484
- Title
- Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
- Author
- MILTON, GILES
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition, First printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374253854
- ISBN 13
- 9780374253851
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
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