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Paperback edition of this account of the adventures of the Englishman who opened the gateway to the mysterious kingdom of Japan in the early seventeenth century. Having sailed to the east in 1598, William Adams was taken with the barbaric splendour of the country, and went on to forge a relationship with the Shogun, and to take a Japanese wife. This is his story, and portrait of a rapidly expanding Jacobean world, and of a then unknown nation and culture. Line illus.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Samurai William
• Author: Giles Milton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780340794685
• ISBN: 0340794682
• ID: 04060695
• Publisher: John Murray Press
• Weight: 330 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 132 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. February 2003

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