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Samurai William: the Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan Free FREE SAMURAI WILLIAM: THE ADVENTURER WHO UNLOCKED JAPAN PDF Giles Milton | 416 pages | 03 Feb 2003 | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | 9780340794685 | English | London, United Kingdom Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton Free shipping. Skip to main content. Email to friends Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab. Add to Watchlist. People who viewed this item also viewed. Picture Information. Mouse over to Zoom - Click to enlarge. Have one to sell? Sell it yourself. Get the item you ordered or get your money back. Learn more - eBay Money Back Guarantee - opens in new window or tab. Seller information stayhappywithbooks Contact seller. Visit store. See other items More See all. Item information Condition:. Sign in to check out Check out as a guest. 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Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Samurai William by Giles Milton. 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. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published December 30th by Penguin Books first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Samurai Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japanplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Really a very ok sort of book that, rather like a newspaper or magazine you might pick and idle through and if you forgot it somewhere, or Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan deliberately left on the seat next to you, you wouldn't feel any the poorer for the loss. A typical journalists' book in that it has a striking headline which really doesn't reflect the story, but is smoothly written and easy to read. Famously Japan closed itself off from foreign contact from the seventeenth century until obliged to engage with the worl Really a very ok sort of book that, rather like a newspaper or magazine you might pick and idle through and if you forgot it somewhere, or indeed deliberately left on the seat next to you, you wouldn't feel any the poorer for the loss. Famously Japan closed itself off from foreign contact from the seventeenth century until obliged to engage with the world in the nineteenth, so from the first one has to doubt that a late sixteenth century adventurer played much of a role in unlocking Japan, the book relates the factual basis behind the novel and later TV show Shogunthis I remember principally for its jaunty theme tune, perhaps in future due to e-readers and what not all books will have theme tunes, even the paper ones, since you can buy annoying cards which play music when you open them view spoiler [ though I remember an episode of Futurama in which a Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan card had a Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan in leading a robot revolt so maybe the rise of the musical book ought to be resisted hide spoiler ]. Anyway if you are unfamiliar with the story Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan will now spoiler it a little view spoiler [ Beware Spoilers! Spoilers dead ahead! William Adams, a native of Gillingham in Kent, sailed with a Dutch fleet and ended up shipwrecked in Japan, there he learnt the language and over time became a favourite of the Shogun and had lands and a title, although his name is in the title of the book and the author tells us that his logbooks and delightfully mis spelt letters from him survive, he is very much the side salad to the bumbling story of the early days of the English East India company - when they attempted to trade English goods which nobody else wanted to buy and were troubled by drunken and riotous English employees before largely being seen off by the Dutch, which provides the meat of the book. In the background is also the story of the Catholic missionaries to Japan, and Japan not being unlocked but moving to slam the door and lock and bolt it against foreigners apart from a Dutch trading station on an island facing Nagasaki. By then the Samurai Adams of the title was entirely Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan and we get maybe four direct quotes from him in the course of the book despite the log books and the letters and the English traders banished from Japan. There is a lot of presumption about characters' thoughts and feelings not supported by reference to source material - par for the course. Mildly entertaining but unlikely to keep you up late at night turning pages with your torch under the bed covers. I feel a lack of confidence in books of this sort - that the reader has to Samurai William: The Adventurer Who Unlocked Japan tempted by alleged world historical significance as bait rather than by the intrinsic interest of the man from Elizabethan England who curiously made a new life with a new wife in Japan as a bannerman to the Shogun. View all 4 comments. Mar 21, Charlene Intriago rated it really liked it Shelves: library-bookbooks-read Even though this was the story of William Adams, the first Englishman in Japan, it was chocked full of historical data written in such a way that it didn't read like a history book.
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