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Samurai William - The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan (Paperback, New Ed)
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Samurai William - The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan (Paperback, New Ed)
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In 1611 an astonishing letter arrived at the East India Trading
Company in London after a tortuous seven-year journey. Englishman
William Adams was one of only twenty-four survivors of a fleet of
ships bound for Asia, and he had washed up in the forbidden land of
Japan. The traders were even more amazed to learn that, rather than
be horrified by this strange country, Adams had fallen in love with
the barbaric splendour of Japan - and decided to settle. He had
forged a close friendship with the ruthless Shogun, taken a
Japanese wife and sired a new, mixed-race family. Adams' letter
fired up the London merchants to plan a new expedition to the Far
East, with designs to trade with the Japanese and use Adams'
contacts there to forge new commercial links. SAMURAI WILLIAM
brilliantly illuminates a world whose horizons were rapidly
expanding eastwards.
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