Yoshimura, Akira, 1927-2006. Shipwrecks / [electronic resource] / Akira Yoshimura ; translated from the Japanese by Mark Ealey.. — 1st ed.. — New York : : Harcourt Brace & Co.,, 1996.. — 180 p. ; 22 cm.



Анотація:
In a medieval Japanese village starving fishermen use fires to lure passing merchant ships toward their shore and onto rocky shoals. When a ship runs aground, they slaughter the crew and loot the cargo. One day a ship founders, but instead of booty the cargo turns out to be smallpox.

ISBN: 0151002118 9780151002115 0151001944 9780151001941

LCCN: 95040514

Subjects--Personal Names:
Yoshimura, Akira, 1927-2006 --Translations into English.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Shipwrecks--Fiction.
Boys--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Japan--Social life and customs--To 1600--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.

LC Class. No.: PL865.O72 / H3313 1996

Dewey Class. No.: 895.6/35