“So in the end of nineteen months, I was freed from imprisonment, but had my living given me, as if I had been a servant in his house.”

About William Adams

Navigator • English

William Adams was an English navigator and shipwright who became the first Englishman to reach Japan in 1600. After his ship, the Liefde, was shipwrecked on the coast of Kyūshū, he and his surviving crew were brought...