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From: Biography
Date: 20030101
Author:Besser, Gretchen Rous; Maniaty, Anthony; Nicholson, Stuart; Ousselin, Edward; Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Spain, Daphne; Wills, Danyll

Adams, William

Samurai William. Giles Milton. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. 415 pp. $23.20.

"His name was William Adams and he would go on to serve as the model for both Jonathan Swift's Gulliver... and James Clavell's Blackthorne in the highly inaccurate but hugely popular Shogun. . .. Adams lived two lives. In England, he learned to build and pilot ships and helped Sir Francis Drake eat the Spanish Armada. In Japan ... he became a samurai and built ships for the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.... Milton tells a good yarn though entirely from a European point of view."

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