Samurai of Gold Hill

by Yoshiko Uchida

Book Overview

Here is a story based on a true, if almost forgotten, incident in California history: the founding of the Wakamatsu colony, a Japanese society near Sacramento, by exiles from the wars that wracked... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684129558
• ISBN13: 9780684129556
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great historical fiction

I remember borrowing this book so many times from the school library and even did a book report on it. The struggle to adjust to a completely different lifestyle that Koichi and his family go through are poignantly displayed in the book. Having to go from a feudal warrior culture to California's gold rush era is quite a shock to one's cultural sensibilities. I applaud Yoshiko Uchida and this wonderful book of hers.