Crofford, Emily.

Born in the year of courage / by Emily Crofford. - Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, c1991. - 160 p. ; 23 cm.

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.

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Nakahama, Manjirō, 1827-1898 --Juvenile fiction.
Nakahama, Manjirō, 1827-1898 --Fiction.


Shipwrecks--Fiction.
Whaling--Fiction.


Japan--History--Fiction.--1787-1868

PZ7.C873 / Bo 1991

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