Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy

About this book

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.

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780688174859

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published

January 7, 2003

Pages

80

Weight

11.7 oz

Subject

Juvenile Nonfiction