Storm Rider

by Akira Yoshimura

Book Overview

Based on real characters and events, Storm Rider is a vivid historical portrait of Japan and America in the mid-nineteenth century, as well as an exciting high-seas adventure and a moving story of a man lost between two cultures. At the age of thirteen, Hikotaro is orphaned and left to a life at sea. When the merchant vessel he sails on is caught in a violent storm on the Pacific, an American ship comes to the rescue and takes the young boy to San...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156031787
• ISBN13: 9780156031783
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 0.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.5"