Personal account of one of the Westerners who helped build modern Japan (see also study by Pedlar - also available from Curzon Press).
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RICHARD Henry Brunton was born in Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland, in December 1841. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
order fixed light, lighthouse purposes, lighthouse work, dioptric apparatus, colza oil, lighthouse tender, lighthouse service, foreign servants, staff light, foreign employees Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Harry Parkes, United States, Imperial Government, Captain Brown, Great Britain, Board of Trade, Messrs Stevenson, Foreign Office, Minister of Public Works, Public Works Department, Lighthouse Department, Mikado's Government, Far East, Treaty Powers, Department of Public Works, Institution of Civil Engineers, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Westbourne Terrace, Captain St John, Finance Department, Inland Sea New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
RICHARD Henry Brunton was born in Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland, in December 1841. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
order fixed light, lighthouse purposes, lighthouse work, dioptric apparatus, colza oil, lighthouse tender, lighthouse service, foreign servants, staff light, foreign employees Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sir Harry Parkes, United States, Imperial Government, Captain Brown, Great Britain, Board of Trade, Messrs Stevenson, Foreign Office, Minister of Public Works, Public Works Department, Lighthouse Department, Mikado's Government, Far East, Treaty Powers, Department of Public Works, Institution of Civil Engineers, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Westbourne Terrace, Captain St John, Finance Department, Inland Sea New!
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- Things Japanese (Kegan Paul Japan Library) by Basil Hall Chamberlain on 5 pages
- Japan By the Japanese by Alfred Stead on 4 pages
- Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. IV (Japan Library Biographical Portraits) by Hugh Cortazzi on page 12, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Coming of the Barbarians: A Story of Western Settlement in Japan 1853-1870 (Penguin Travel Library) by Pat Barr on page 12, and Back Matter
- The Imported Pioneers: Westerners Who Helped Build Modern Japan by Neil Pedlar on page 12, and Back Matter
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