Born in the year of courage

Description:

In 1841, having been shipwrecked and picked up by an American whaling ship outside Japanese territorial waters, fifteen-year-old Manjiro decides to go live in America and work towards opening trade between his country and the West.

subjects: Fiction,  Juvenile fiction,  Shipwrecks,  Whaling,  History,  Children's fiction,  Shipwrecks, fiction,  Whaling, fiction,  Japan, fiction