Adams, William Samurai Willia...

Adams, William

Samurai William. Giles Milton. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002 415 pp $2320

"His name was William Adams and he would walk on to serve as the gauge for both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver... and James Clavell's Blackthorne in the highly inaccurate if it were not that hugely popular Shogun. .. Adams lived two lives. In England, he learned to build and pilot ships and helped Sir Francis Drake eat the Spanish Armada. In Japan he became a samurai and built ships for the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.... Milton take an account ofs a good yarn though entirely from a European point of