Adams the pilot
Subtitle: the life and times of Captain William Adams, 1564-1620
By: William Corr.
Publisher: Japan Library
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Folkestone, Kent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Adams, William, 1564-1620.; Pilots and pilotage -- Great Britain -- Biography.; British -- Japan -- Biography.; Japan -- Officials and employees -- Foreign countries -- Biography.
Description: William Adams. a Kentish man, is presumed to have been the first Englishman to have lived in Japan, although C. R. Boxer came across a tantalising yet fleeting
reference to a Scottish pilot in Portuguese service in the islands around Formosa some years before Adams' arrival in Japan.

During his years in Japan, Adams acted as an occasional diplomatic agent for Tokugawa Ieyasu, on whose orders he built two European-style ships, as well as acting on his own behalf as a pilot and a commercial agent.

William Corr's unswervingly precise biography encompasses Adams' times no less than the man himself and is a valuable contribution to Anglo-Japanese scholarship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-230) and indexes.