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Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy – A Biography About Courage When Returning Home Meant Death for Children (Ages 8-12)

Rhoda Blumberg

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Description:Any person who leaves the country to go to another and later returns will 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.NOTE: Blumberg's "Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun" is a companion volume.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy – A Biography About Courage When Returning Home Meant Death for Children (Ages 8-12). To get started finding Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy – A Biography About Courage When Returning Home Meant Death for Children (Ages 8-12), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Any person who leaves the country to go to another and later returns will 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.NOTE: Blumberg's "Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun" is a companion volume.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy – A Biography About Courage When Returning Home Meant Death for Children (Ages 8-12). To get started finding Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy – A Biography About Courage When Returning Home Meant Death for Children (Ages 8-12), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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