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SamuraiShūsaku Endō

Samurai

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In 1613 Father Pedro Velasco's dream came true. He set sail with a small group of Japanese Samurai for Mexico, Spain and Rome. Velasco knew Japanese, and his zealous hope was to become primate over a converted, Catholic Japan. His mission, with the Samurai, was to bargain for a Catholic crusade through Japan in exchange for Japanese trading rights with the West. It was a journey of incredible danger and hardship, underwritten solely by faith...

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Editions

5 editions · 2 languages
  • Other · English · 1997
    The samurai
    New Directions · 272 pages · 9780811213462
  • Other · English · 1984
    The samurai
    Vintage Books · 272 pages · 9780394727264
  • Other · English · 1983
    The Samurai
    Penguin · 272 pages · 9780140065572
  • Other · English · 1982
    The samurai
    Peter Owen · 272 pages · 9780720605594
  • Other · Greek · 1984
    Oi samoyraï
    Ekdoseis Psychogios · 380 pages · 9789607020963
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