Yankee Surveyors in the Shogun's Seas / / ed. by Allan Burnett Cole.
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 fi...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©1947 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (170 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Background of the Surveying Expedition
- Letters of the Surveying Expedition to Japan and the North Pacific Ocean 1853-1856