An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel\'s Nutmeg .
He had risen to the highest levels in the ruling shogun\'s court,.
Foreigners had been denied access to Japan for centuries, yet Adams had been living in this unknown land for years.
In 1611, the merchants of London\'s East India Company received a mysterious letter from Japan, written several years previously by a marooned English mariner named William Adams.
An eye-opening account of the first encounter between England and Japan, by the acclaimed author of Nathaniel\'s Nutmeg