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Folks who are about my age may recall the mini-series TV event, but won't remember it terribly well without having revisited it.
It's hard to believe, as a card carrying otaku, that I hadn't read this novel or seen the mini-series, but here we are.
The novel is based around a Englishman who sailed from the Netherlands to South America and then on to, as they called them, The Japans.
It's hard to conceptualize their voyage in our highly connected age. These men climbed aboard sailing vessels armed only with incomplete maps and sextants. In those days, sea travel was perilous. Most of the men who set off on that voyage died.
