Everything you need to understand or teach The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (author).
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" is a novel by David Mitchell which is an account of the life of Dutch clerk Jacob de Zoet on the man-made island of Dejima in Japan between 1799 and 1817.
Jacob de Zoet, seeking to advance himself and marry his beloved, Anna, travels to Japan with the Dutch East India Company to work at the trading town on a man-made island, Dejima, in Nagasaki Harbor...