Needle-Watcher: The Will Adams Story British Samurai by Richard Blaker

Needle-Watcher: The Will Adams Story British Samurai

Richard Blaker

510 pages first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous informative mysterious slow-paced
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Adams' knowledge of seafaring vessels at the time causes him to be taken into the favor of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and,in time,to become recognized as the founder of the Japanese navy. Adams was one of the most picturesque and daring of Britain...

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