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

Author: Rhoda Blumberg Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Biographies, Non Fiction, History, Children Culture: Japan Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing 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. Similar books: Princess Masako by Ben Hills In the Realm of a Dying Emperor by Norma Field The Last Samurai by Mark Ravina Samurai William by Giles Milton Memories of Silk and Straw by Junichi Saga Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix Japan by Patrick Smith Emperor of Japan by Donald Keene The Great Wave by Christopher Benfey Japanese Culture by H. Paul Varley The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa by Yukichi Fukuzawa Dogs and Demons by Alex Kerr Confessions of a Yakuza by Junichi Saga The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen A Daughter of the Samurai by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto Zeitoun by Dave Eggers The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz The Immortal Irishman by Timothy Egan Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin