
Samurai William
An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel''s Nutmeg
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 l...
An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel''s Nutmeg
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 l...