Born in the year of courage

By Emily Crofford

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

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.