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03459cam a22005534a 4500 001 8B7E11962B0211DE8760C407A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20200828010432 008 020523r20032002nyua 001 0beng 010 $a 2002072362 020 $a 9780374253851 (hc : alk. paper) 020 $a 0374253854 (hc : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BAKER $d NLGGC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d OCLCG $d IO4 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a DS869.A3 $b M54 2003 082 00 $a B $a B $2 21 084 $a 15.75 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Milton, Giles. 245 1 $a Samurai William : $b the Englishman who opened Japan / $c Giles Milton. 250 $a 1st American ed. 260 $a New York : $b Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $c 2003, c2002. 300 $a 352 p. : $b ill., map ; $c 22 cm. 500 $a Originally published: Samurai William: the adventurer who unlocked Japan. Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. 500 $a Includes index. 520 $a In 1611, the merchants of London's East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William Adams. Foreigners had been denied access to Japan for centuries, yet Adams had been living in this unknown land for years. He had risen to the highest levels in the ruling shogun's court, taken a Japanese name, and was now offering his services as adviser and interpreter. Seven adventurers were sent to Japan with orders to find and befriend Adams, in the belief that he held the key to exploiting the opulent riches of this forbidden land. Their arrival was to prove a momentous event in the history of Japan and the shogun suddenly found himself facing a stark choice: to expel the foreigners and continue with his policy of isolation, or to open his country to the world. For more than a decade the English, helped by Adams, were to attempt trade with the shogun, but confounded by a culture so different from their own, and hounded by scheming Jesuit monks and fearsome Dutch assassins, they found themselves in a desperate battle for their lives. Samurai William is the fascinating story of a clash of two cultures, and of the enormous impact one Westerner had on the opening of the East. 600 10 $a Adams, William, $d 1564-1620. 651 0 $a Japan $x Officials and employees, Alien $v Biography. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Officials and employees $z Japan $v Biography. 650 0 $a British $z Japan $v Biography. 650 0 $a Pilots and pilotage $z Great Britain $v Biography. 651 0 $a Japan $x Relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Relations $z Japan. 650 17 $a Ontdekkingsreizen. $2 gtt 650 17 $a Internationale betrekkingen. $2 gtt 700 1 $a Milton, Giles. $t Samurai William: the adventurer who unlocked Japan. 856 42 $3 Contributor biographical information $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol051/2002072362.html 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002072362.html 941 $a 8 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926082436.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418035543.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160820043441.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20110512010654.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8B7E11962B0211DE8760C407A8D7520A 994 $a 03 $b IO4Initiate Another SILO Locator Search