Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan

by Giles Milton

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The adventures of the Englishman who opened the East. This book illuminates a Jacobean world whose horizons were rapidly expanding and a Japan that was still unknown to the rest of the world. In the winter of 1611, a letter was received by the 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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0340794674
  • ISBN13 9780340794678
  • Publish Date 13 June 2002
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 24 May 2005
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
  • Imprint Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Language English