Tuesday, October 18, 2011

James Clavell - Shogun

An explorer in seventeenth-century Japan, ambitious Englishman John Blackthorne encounters the powerful and power-hungry Lord Toranaga and the Catholic convert Lady Mariko when his ship is wrecked off the coast, leaving only him and a small number of the crew alive. A Pilot for his ship Erasmus, he becomes invaluable to Lord Toranaga's cause with his knowledge of the outside world, but only after he begins to understand the people of Japan and starts to cast off his 'barbarian' ways.

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