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...MANJIRO, THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA (149 pp.)-Hisakazu Kaneko-Houghton Mifflin...
Books that are really nothing more than footnotes to history are sometimes more engaging than narratives of great events. Such a book is Manjiro, the Man Who Discovered America, the story of a young Japanese who found his way to America several years before Commodore Matthew Perry opened up Japan to the world in 1854. Japanese Author Hisakazu Kaneko has turned up in Manjiro an engaging subject, and has written his story in a style that has the warmth and charm of genuine naivet...
Chasing Whales. Manjiro was the fisherman son of an impoverished Japanese widow. In the feudal Japan of his day, a boy of such low caste could hope for nothing except a life of toil and a full belly each day if he was lucky. But Manjiro was luckier than that. In 1841, when he was 14, the small fishing boat on which he worked was carried out to sea by a storm and drifted to an uncharted island...