Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan
by:
Giles Milton (author)
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...
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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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142003787 (0142003786)
Publish date: December 30th 2003
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
It's an interesting topic and an interesting story, one man who survives in 17th century Japan after being shipwrecked and who becomes more Japanese as time goes by has to then try to cope with dealing with both worlds as Portugal, England and the Netherlands try to get a foothold. This is the seco...
Being a lover of historical fiction, one of my favorite books was Shogun by James Clavell. Then I few years ago I was in San Antonio, TX and the lady sitting by the pool next to me was reading a book that looked interesting. She said it was a book about the real life person that Shogun was based...
It's an interesting topic and an interesting story, one man who survives in 17th century Japan after being shipwrecked and who becomes more Japanese as time goes by has to then try to cope with dealing with both worlds as Portugal, England and the Netherlands try to get a foothold. This is the seco...
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