Samurai William : the adventurer who unlocked Japan / Giles Milton.

By: Milton, Giles, 1966-Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2002Copyright date: ©2002Description: xv, 400 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0340794674; 0340826347 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Adams, William, 1564-1620 | Adams, William, 1564-1620 | Adams, William, 1564-1620 | Adams, William, 1564-1620 | Explorers -- England -- Biography | Explorers -- England -- Biography | Upptäcktsresande -- Storbritannien -- 1500-talet -- 1600-talet -- biografi | British -- Japan -- Biography | Pilots and pilotage -- Great Britain -- Biography | British | Employees | International relations | Pilots and pilotage | Japan -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- History | Great Britain -- Commerce -- Japan -- History | Handelsförbindelser -- historia -- Japan | Handelsförbindelser -- historia -- Storbritannien | Japan -- Officials and employees, Alien -- Biography | Great Britain -- Officials and employees -- Japan -- Biography | Japan -- Relations -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Relations -- Japan | Great Britain | Japan | Japan -- Commerce -- Great Britain -- HistoryGenre/Form: Biography. DDC classification: 952.0250924 | 952.024092 LOC classification: DS869.A3 | M54 2003
Contents:
At the court of Bungo -- Icebergs in the Orient -- All at sea -- In the name of the father -- Samurai William -- Into unknown lands -- Greeting Mr Adams -- At home with Richard Cocks -- Clash of the samurai -- Question of language -- Killed like fishes -- Ruptured friendship -- Last orders.
Summary: The adventures of William Adams, 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.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

At the court of Bungo -- Icebergs in the Orient -- All at sea -- In the name of the father -- Samurai William -- Into unknown lands -- Greeting Mr Adams -- At home with Richard Cocks -- Clash of the samurai -- Question of language -- Killed like fishes -- Ruptured friendship -- Last orders.

The adventures of William Adams, 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.

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