![]() The series also includes the novels Noble House (1981), Whirlwind (1986) and Gai-Jin (1993). After losing his ship to a violent storm, an English navigator finds himself in an endless web of complex politics and power play in Japan. ![]() Although Shogun is the first volume in Clavell's Asian series, it was published after the novels King Rat (1962) and Tai-Pan (1966). Publication date 1980 Topics Drama Language English. It's irresistible, maybe unforgettable and, finally, exhausting. '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 strives for epic dimension, and occasionally it approaches that elevated state. "It's almost impossible not to continue to read Shogun once having opened it,' wrote Webster Schott in The New York Times Book Review. From best-selling author James Clavell (King Rat, Noble House) comes the sweeping award-winning story of love and war. ![]() 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. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers. ![]() First edition of the first chronological work in Clavell’s epic Asian series. ![]()
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