Shipwrecked! : the true adventures of a Japanese boy
(2001)
By:
Blumberg, Rhoda
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/BIOGRAPHY/952.625/NAKAHAMA,M/BLU
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : HarperCollins, [2001]
©2001
©2001
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
80 pages : illustrations, map ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0060293659 (library), 0688174841
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Winner of the 2001 Parent's Choice Gold Award for nonfiction
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States
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