Samurai William: The Englishman Who...

Samurai William: The Englishman Who lay opened Japan. Giles Milton. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002 352 pp $2400
"Adams's story is a grand common fit to takes its place beside any of the engrossing tales of travel, displacement, and personal discovery that pepper the years of Europe's apparently unending search for trade, religious transposes and empire. In Samurai William Giles Milton at hands it with undisguised gusto. His notes and bibliography make it clear that he has absorbed to a great degree of the ...