Native American in the land of the shogun : Ranald MacDonald and the opening of Japan
"In 1848, against all odds, a half-Chinook, half-Scot man named Ranald MacDonald entered feudal Japan - when it was still closed to the outside world. Here is the true story of how this remarkable twenty-four year old journeyed on his own to a forbidden land and helped open it to the modern world."
collective biographies
xiv, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
9781880656785, 9781880656778, 1880656787, 1880656779
51728685
Fort Colvile and the Custer interview
The mouth of the Columbia River
A fateful non-meeting at Fort Vancouver
Education at Red River
A "trial in business" at St. Thomas
Sag Harbor's Japan connection
A "staging ground" in the Hawaiian Islands
Rishiri Island : the adventure begins
On Japan's northern frontier
Under control of the Matsumae domain
Arrival in Nagasaki
Nagasaki days, teaching English and learning Japanese
Leaving Nagasaki
Creation of the narrative
The MacDonald legacy