Heraclius
03-01-2003, 05:17
Has anyone out there in forum-land ever read Shogun by James Clavell? Its a very good and interesting book, loosely based on a true story, about an English navigator and his Dutch crew that are ship-wrecked on Japan in the year 1600. Japan at this time is wracked by the tail end of the turmoil that made Shogun the computer game such a fantastic game. The Englishman is used in the current power struggle between two powerful warlords. The author uses fake names but most characters are real. I was just wondering if anyone knows if Clavell depicted Japan accurately because it was actually this book that made me buy the computer game.