Kaempfer: Kaempfer's Japan Paper

by Engelbert Kaempfer

Book Overview

Engelbert Kaempfer's History of Japan was a best-seller from the moment it was published in London in 1727. Born in Westphalia in 1651, Kaempfer traveled throughout the Near and Far East before settling in Japan as physician to the trading settlement of the Dutch East India Company at Nagasaki. During his two years residence, he made two extensive trips around Japan in 1691 and 1692, collecting, according to the British historian Boxer, "an astonishing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824820665
• ISBN13: 9780824820664
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"