Samurai William
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There was a lot of overlap with Nathaniel's Nutmeg, too - understandable as both books tell the story of European trade with the Far East, Nathaniel's Nutmeg concentrating on the spice trade, and Samurai William with the more difficult challenge of trade with Japan. These inevitable overlaps unfortunately made the book much less interesting to me, because I already knew so much of it from reading the earlier book, and apart from the stuff about the Japanese court and customs, there wasn't a lot of new material - just more anecdotes illustrating the difficulties of travelling such enormous distances, of living in a totally foreign culture, and of working for a company whose head office was on the other side of the world and could only be communicated with by letters taking months to reach their destination (actually, I'm still a bit confused by this - how come if it took individual ships more than a year to reach Japan, letters from home only took months?).
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Will release back at Trattorie Cafe, Sunday 1 July at Book Crossing Group breakfast.
Released 16 yrs ago (9/24/2007 UTC) at University of Canterbury, Law School in Christchurch, Canterbury New Zealand
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I am going to Japanese Film Festival and I will release this book near this area