Shipwrecked!, Paperback/Rhoda Blumberg

Shipwrecked!, Paperback/Rhoda Blumberg

Editura
An publicare
2003
Nr. Pagini
80
ISBN
9780688174859

Descriere

Any person who leavesthe country to go to anotherand later returnswill be put to death. This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him, Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America, where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun.

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