Born in the year of courage
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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.
FictionJuvenile fictionShipwrecksWhalingHistoryChildren's fictionShipwrecks, fictionWhaling, fictionJapan, fiction