01122cam a2200289 4500 290518624 TxAuBib 20170424120000.0 910226s1991||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 91010883 9780876146798 $14.95 0876146795 $14.95 (OCoLC)23356014 TxAuBib Crofford, Emily. Born in the year of courage / by Emily Crofford. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda Books, 1991. 160 p. ; 23 cm. In 1841, having been shipwrecked and picked up by an American whaling ship outside Japanese territorial waters, fifteen-year-old Manjiro decides to go live in America and work towards opening trade between his country and the West. 20170424. Nakahama, Manjirō, 1827-1898 Juvenile fiction. Nakahama, Manjirō, 1827-1898 Fiction. Shipwrecks Fiction. Whaling Fiction. Japan History 1787-1868 Fiction. TXKEP