Title: Born in the year of courage
Description: In 1841, having been shipwrecked and picked up by an American whaling ship outside Japanese territorial waters, fifteen-year-old Manjiro decides to go live in America and work towards opening trade between his country and the West.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Shipwrecks, Whaling, History, Children's fiction, Shipwrecks, fiction, Whaling, fiction, Japan, fiction