Native American in the Land of the Shogun: Ranald MacDonald and the Opening of JapanA wide-ranging, readable account of an eccentric and exceptional man who crossed cultures and changed history. |
Contents
A Fateful NonMeeting at Fort Vancouver | 51 |
Education at Red River | 81 |
A Trial in Business at St Thomas | 111 |
Sag Harbors Japan Connection | 140 |
A Staging Ground in the Hawaiian Islands | 157 |
Front page of The Friend showing the Seamens Chapel in Honolulu | 178 |
The Adventure Begins | 185 |
A Man and Woman of Volcano Bay Ainu as viewed by Europeans ca 1804 | 198 |
Daihian floor plan | 276 |
Part of a page of MacDonalds vocabulary list | 289 |
Leaving Nagasaki | 294 |
U S S Preble 183963 | 307 |
Conference Room at Yokohama Kanagawa Japan March 1854 | 321 |
Creation of the Narrative | 323 |
The Rampant Raft | 340 |
The MacDonald Legacy | 353 |
On Japans Northern Frontier | 210 |
Sōya monument to The Most Northern Point in Japan | 212 |
Advertisement for Georg Langsdorffs book September 19 1848 | 229 |
Under Control of the Matsumae Domain | 231 |
Sketch of imprisoned Lawrence crewman George Howe | 245 |
Arrival in Nagasaki | 254 |
Scene in a typical magistrates office in Matsumae | 258 |
Teaching English and Learning Japanese | 273 |
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