![]() ![]() The series also includes the novels Noble House (1981), Whirlwind (1986) and Gai-Jin (1993). Although Shogun is the first volume in Clavell's Asian series, it was published after the novels King Rat (1962) and Tai-Pan (1966). 'Yet it's not only something that you read-you live it… Shogun, set in Japan in the year 1600, follows the adventures of the fictional John Blackthorne, whom the novel presents as the first Englishman to reach Japan… In 1980 Shogun was made into a five-part television mini-series that starred Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune and was seen by 120 million viewers, the largest audience for a mini-series since Roots" (New York Times). "It's almost impossible not to continue to read Shogun once having opened it,' wrote Webster Schott in The New York Times Book Review. Grand in scope and scale, filled with the richness and passion of history, Shgun is a classic novel of Japana vibrant and authentic portrait of a nation seething with violence and intrigue as it moves from the medieval world to the modern. Signed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, “James C Bev Hills July ’75.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Set in Japan in the year 1600, Shgun is the earliest book in James Clavell’s magnificent Asian Saga. ![]() Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. ![]() ![]() First edition of the first chronological work in Clavell’s epic Asian series. Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life.After Englishman John Blackthorne. ![]()
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