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Yankee Surveyors in the Shogun's Seas
By (Author) Allan Burnett Cole
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Diplomacy
Maritime history
History of the Americas
327.73052
Hardback
170
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
397g
When Commodore Perry opened Japan to the West, the U.S. Navy sent a surveying expedition to the North Pacific. The officers of that expedition, 1853-1856, recounted their experiences, and especially their dealings with the Japanese, in vivid and outspoken letters which are here reproduced for the first time. Entertaining reading, as well as importa