802 pages
English language
Published May 5, 1979 by Atheneum.
4 stars
(1 review)
Starting with his shipwreck on alien shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the heights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.
Subjects
- Japan -- History -- Tokugawa period, 1600-1868 -- Fiction