Scottish Samurai - Thomas Blake Glover, 1838-1911

Informationen zum Autor Alexander McKay Klappentext Alexander McKay, as well as giving occasional talks on Thomas Blake Glover (he was also an adviser to a BBC Great Explorers documentary about him), and writing articles on Japan, continues to struggle with an account of his life offshore. He spent around thirty years in the oil industry, much of the time overseas but also more than a decade in the North Sea, and was traumatized by some horrific incidents. He still suffers from nightmares and is trying to exorcise these by writing about them. The father of two adult daughters and grandfather of three, he lives in Edinburgh with his Japanese wife of forty years. Zusammenfassung Bankruptcy by the age of thirty was barely a setback and he went on to become a pivotal figure in the rapidly expanding Mitsubishi empire, founding shipyards and breweries. As energetic in his love-life as in business and politics, Glover had a string of Japanese mistresses, one of whom inspired Puccini's Madam Butterfly.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Mckay, MCKAY ALEXANDER
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.02.2012
• EAN: 9780857866158
• ISBN: 978-0-85786-615-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > History; Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Asian History, Alan Spence The Pure Land