Alexander McKay
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The singular life of the nineteenth-century Scottish merchant who brought the West to Japan is illuminated in this fascinating biography: "This is a great story" (Financial Times).
In Scottish Samurai, biographer Alexander McKay chronicles Thomas Blake Glover's influential life in the East. Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years, he had played a crucial part in the overthrow...
In Scottish Samurai, biographer Alexander McKay chronicles Thomas Blake Glover's influential life in the East. Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years, he had played a crucial part in the overthrow...
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