In the summer of 1851, still a midshipman at twenty-four with promotion nowhere in sight, the younger heir of a great Southern plantation sails for the closed coasts of Japan. In Kagoshima Bay he meets the two-sworded samurai Yoritomo, travels the Tokaido, faces magistrates and torturers, and is drawn into intrigues surrounding a high-born betrothed.
Exotic adventure set in the last years of Japan’s isolation, with all the romance of 1910 American popular fiction. Download the free EPUB.
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