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发表于2024-10-03
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With all the adventure, derring-do, and bloodcurdling battle scenes of his earlier book, Nathaniel’s Nutmeg , acclaimed historian Giles Milton dazzles readers with the true story of William Adams—the first Englishman to set foot in Japan (and the inspiration for James Clavell’s bestselling novel Shogun ). Beginning with Adams’s startling letter to the East India Company in 1611—more than a decade after he’d arrived in Japan— Samurai William chronicles the first foray by the West into that mysterious closed-off land. 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.
◎ 著者简介
贾尔斯•米尔顿(Giles Milton),英国畅销书作家,著有《伊丽莎白大酋长》《肉豆蔻》《白色黄金》等。
◎ 译者简介
袁皓天,北京语言大学英语语言文学专业硕士。
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Samurai William pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024