Adams The Pilot

ISBN-13: 9781873410448 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 256 str.

Opis

Previous biographies of the so-called First Englishman in Japan - most notably P.G. Rogers and Richard Baker (The Needlewatchers) earlier this century - did not have access to the more recent research of scholars such as Derek Masarella, Anthony Farrington, Michael Cooper and Charles Boxer.

Spis treści

Preface; Map; Chapter ronology Chronology; Section 01 I Adams and his Age; Section 02 II William Adams’ Early Life; Section 03 III The Mahu and De Cordes Fleet; Section 04 IV The Voyage; Section 05 V Landfall in Hawaii; Section 06 VI Arrival in Japan; Section 07 VII The Jesuit Presence in Japan; Section 08 VIII Adams and the Missionaries; Section 09 IX Survivors; Section 10 X The Coming of the Dutch; Section 11 XI The Hirado Britons; Section 12 XII Conflict at Hirado; Section 13 XIII Adams in Japan; Section 14 XIV Voyages; Section 15 XV The Greatest and Powerfullest Terrany; Section 16 XVI Epilogue; Appendix I; Appendix II; bibliographical_note Bibliographical Note; Bibliography; Glossary; Index; Index of Shipping;

O autorze

WILLIAM CORR