Shipwrecked!

by Rhoda Blumberg
PRMS hardcover 77 pages
genre: NF, biography

Mary Verbick recommended this book, subtitled "The true adventures of a Japanese boy." Fascinating story of Manjiro and the closed culture of 1850s Japan. He was fishing with some other villagers when a storm blew up and stranded them on an island. After months of surviving on seaweed and albatross, they were rescued by a Dutch ship and brought to Hawaii. Manjiro's personal story from poor fisherman to Samurai is amazing! (And this story made me realize how little I know about other countries' history.)