A thrilling Novel of the West\'s first journeys to Japan from "a master storyteller" and the acclaimed author of Saigon and Peking ( The Kansas City Star ).
Commodore Matthew Perry has arrived, sent by the US president to.
A fleet of ships billowing black smoke steam past Japan\'s tributary islands in July 1853, setting off panic among a people who have been sealed off from the rest of the world for over two hundred years.
A thrilling Novel of the West\'s first journeys to Japan from "a master storyteller" and the acclaimed author of Saigon and Peking ( The Kansas City Star )