Name: Shipwrecked!

Full name: Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

Author: Rhoda Blumberg
Year: 2001
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Award winners, Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Children
Culture: Japan

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ISBNs:
9780688174859
068817485X
Any person who leaves the country to go to another and later returns will be put to death. This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him, Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America, where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun.

NOTE: Blumberg's "Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun" is a companion volume.
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