Name: Captive in Japan (en Inglés)
SKU: 54682964
Price: 34670.00 CLP
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Author: Golovnin, Vasily ; De Lange, William
ISBN: 9789492722256

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Vasily Golovnin

Ilustrado por

William De Lange

Editorial

Toyo Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

302

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2x1.7 cm

Peso

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9789492722256

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Biografía: general
Historia de asia
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Captive in Japan (en Inglés)

Vasily Golovnin (Autor) · William De Lange (Ilustrado por) · Toyo Press · Tapa Blanda

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Vasilii Golovnin (1776-1818) was already a celebrity when, in the spring of 1811, twenty years into his career in the Russian Imperial navy, he was commissioned to captain an expedition to map the Kuril Islands from the Strait of Hope to the island of Kunashir, just off the north-east coat of Hokkaido. Only two years earlier, having been seized at the Cape of Good Hope, he had outwitted the British and managed to escape with his ship the Diana.He was less lucky, when, having reached Kunashir, he took the fateful decision to land on shore to take in fresh provisions. What followed was an extraordinary adventure of capture, escape, recapture, and endless interrogations by the seemingly insatiably curious Japanese.The highly educated Golovnin now decided on a remarkably different approach and used his next two years in captivity to master the Japanese language and to learn all he could about the Japanese and their customs. The result is a mesmerizing account that is a testament to his and his men's bravery, as well as his respect for the Japanese and their culture.Golovnin's account of his adventures in Japan was an overnight bestseller among the Russian reading public. Even today, his account, unblemished by the prejudices of so many of the later Western visitors to feudal Japan, still makes for riveting reading.