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Robert Ames Bennet’s adventure-romance, “The Shogun’s Daughter,” is set in Japan prior to its opening to the West by Commodore Perry in 1854. A young American, a blue-blooded Southerner, ventures into the forbidden, hermit nation, with its ironclad caste system and stern Samurai rule, and falls in love with a beautiful young woman ... the daughter of a powerful Shogun!“The Shogun’s Daughter” leads the reader into the bewildering intricacies of Japanese customs and politics as the foreign hero risks life and limb to win the heart of his beloved maiden.[Each RSVP public domain title has been reformatted and restructured for improved ease of reading and with the Amazon Kindle specifically in mind. Each book also contains an active Table of Contents and a recommended list of other RSVP titles.]

This Halcyon Classics ebook is THE SHOGUN'S DAUGHTER by Robert Ames Bennett. Set in Japan prior to its "opening" to the West by Commodore Perry in 1854, a young American ventures into the forbidden country and falls in love with a beautiful young woman, the daughter of a powerful Shogun. The story leads one into bewildering intricacies of Japanese customs and politics, as the hero risks life and limb to win the heart of his love.Robert Ames Bennett (1870-1954) was an American writer of adventure and western novels. The son of the first congressional delegate from Colorado, Bennett focused the early part of his career on writing westerns, publishing several popular novels between 1910 and 1928. Three of his westerns were made into films. After the popularity of westerns began to wane, Bennett began to publish science fiction.

Robert A. Bennet’s adventure-romance, “The Shogun’s Daughter,” is set in Japan at about the time of Commodore Perry's arrival. A young American naval officer ventures into the forbidden hermit kingdom, with its ironclad caste system and stern Samurai rule, and falls in love with a beautiful young woman...the daughter of a powerful Shogun!“The Shogun’s Daughter” introduces the reader into the bewildering intricacies of Japanese customs and politics, as the 'Gai-Jin' (foreign devil) protagonist risks everything to win the heart of his beloved maiden...This "Classics Collection" edition includes the full-color illustrations by W. D. Goldbeck.

Robert Ames Bennet’s adventure-romance, “The Shogun’s Daughter,” is set in Japan prior to its opening to the West by Commodore Perry in 1854. A young American, a blue-blooded Southerner, ventures into the forbidden, hermit nation, with its ironclad caste system and stern Samurai rule, and falls in love with a beautiful young woman ... the daughter of a powerful Shogun!“The Shogun’s Daughter” leads the reader into the bewildering intricacies of Japanese customs and politics as the foreign hero risks life and limb to win the heart of his beloved maiden.

Example in this ebookCHAPTER I—Eastern SeasMy first cruise as a midshipman in the navy of the United States began a short month too late for me to share in the honors of the Mexican War. In other words, I came in at the foot of the service, with all the grades above me fresh-stocked with comparatively young and vigorous officers. As a consequence, the rate of promotion was so slow that the Summer of 1851 found me, at the age of twenty-four, still a middie, with my lieutenancy ever receding, like a will-o’-the-wisp, into the future.Had I chosen a naval career through necessity, I might have continued to endure. But to the equal though younger heir of one of the largest plantations in South Carolina, the pay of even a post captain would have been of small concern. It is, therefore, hardly necessary to add that I had been lured into the service by the hope of winning fame and glory.That my choice should have fallen upon the navy rather than the army may have been due to the impulse of heredity. According to family traditions and records, one of my ancestors was the famous English seaman Will Adams, who served Queen Elizabeth in the glorious fight against the Spanish Armada and afterwards piloted a Dutch ship through the dangerous Straits of Magellan and across the vast unchartered expanse of the Pacific to the mysterious island empire, then known as Cipango or Zipangu.History itself verifies that wonderful voyage and the still more wonderful fact of my ancestor’s life among the Japanese as one of the nobles and chief counsellors of the great Emperor Iyeyasu. So highly was the advice of the bold Englishman esteemed by the Emperor that he was never permitted to return home. For many years he dwelt honorably among that most peculiar of Oriental peoples, aiding freely the few English and Dutch who ventured into the remote Eastern seas. He had aided even the fanatical Portuguese and Spaniards, who, upon his arrival, had sought to have him and his handful of sick and starving shipmates executed as pirates. So it was he lived and died a Japanese noble, and was buried with all honor.With the blood of such a man in my veins, it is not strange that I turned to the sea. Yet it is no less strange that three years in the service should bring me to an utter weariness of the dull naval routine. Notable as were the achievements of our navy throughout the world in respect to exploration and other peaceful triumphs, it has ever surprised me that in the absence of war and promotion I should have lingered so long in my inferior position.In war the humiliation of servitude to seniority may be thrust from thought by the hope of winning superior rank through merit. Deprived of this opportunity, I could not but chafe under my galling subjection to the commands of men never more than my equals in social rank and far too often my inferiors.The climax came after a year on the China Station, to which I had obtained an assignment in the hope of renewed action against the arrogant Celestials. Disappointed in this, and depressed by a severe spell of fever contracted at Honkong, I resigned the service at Shanghai, and took passage for New York, by way of San Francisco and the Horn, on the American clipper Sea Flight.We cleared for the Sandwich Islands August the twenty-first, 1851. The second noon found us safe across the treacherous bars of the Yangtse-Kiang and headed out across the Eastern Sea, the southwest monsoon bowling us along at a round twelve knots.To be continue in this ebook

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My first cruise as a midshipman in the navy of the United States began a short month too late for me to share in the honors of the Mexican War. In other words, I came in at the foot of the service, with all the grades above me fresh-stocked with comparatively young and vigorous officers. As a consequence, the rate of promotion was so slow that the Summer of 1851 found me, at the age of twenty-four, still a middie, with my lieutenancy ever receding, like a will-o’-the-wisp, into the future. Had I chosen a naval career through necessity, I might have continued to endure. But to the equal though younger heir of one of the largest plantations in South Carolina, the pay of even a post captain would have been of small concern. It is, therefore, hardly necessary to add that I had been lured into the service by the hope of winning fame and glory.

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