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Blumberg Rhoda - Shipwrecked! The True Adventures Of A Japanese Boy - Paperback
Blumberg Rhoda - Shipwrecked! The True Adventures Of A Japanese Boy - Paperback
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Description: Any person who leavesthe country to go to anotherand later returnswill be put to death. This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen - year - old Manjiro working on a fishing boat to help support his family was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Title: Shipwrecked! The True Adventures Of A Japanese Boy
Author(s): Blumberg Rhoda
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780688174859
Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/7/2003
Description: Any person who leavesthe country to go to anotherand later returnswill be put to death. This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen - year - old Manjiro working on a fishing boat to help support his family was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Title: Shipwrecked! The True Adventures Of A Japanese Boy
Author(s): Blumberg Rhoda
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780688174859
Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 1/7/2003
