MANJIRO, THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED AMERICA (149 pp.)Hisakazu KanekoHoughton Mifflin ($2.75).
Books that are really nothing more than footnotes to history are sometimes more engaging than narratives of great events. Such a book is Manjiro, the Man Who Discovered America, the story of a young Japanese who found his way to America several years before Commodore Matthew Perry opened up Japan to the world in 1854. Japanese Author Hisakazu Kaneko has turned up in Manjiro an engaging subject, and has written his story in a style that has the warmth and charm of genuine...
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