Asian Saga: Book 1A Novel of Japan
An explorer in seventeenth-century Japan, ambitious Englishman John Blackthorne encounters the powerful and power-hungry Lord Toranaga and the Catholic convert Lady Mariko when his ship is wrecked off the coast, leaving only him and a small number of the crew alive. A Pilot for his ship Erasmus, he becomes invaluable to Lord Toranaga's cause with his knowledge of the outside world, but only after he begins to...
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