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Shipwrecked: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

Blumberg, Rhoda

Shipwrecked: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy - New York HarperCollins Publishers 2001 - 80 p. : b&w ill.

In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro learns new laws and customs as he becomes the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.

0-06-029365-9 Junior Library Guild

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