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With Commodore Perry to Japan offers a personable account of Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan through the eyes of a sixteen-year-old purser's clerk of the Mississippi. The National Historic Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC) -endorsed documentary edition provides excellent coverage of both the political mission of the Perry expedition - the opening of relations with Japan - and of the social history of a naval warship as well. Speiden kept entries on a regular basis, although not always daily, and he filled more than three hundred, closely written pages dating from 9 March 1852 to

Sailors --- Coasts --- Description and travel. --- Speiden, William, --- Perry, Matthew Calbraith, --- Mississippi (Side-wheel steamer) --- United States. --- Sea life. --- United States Naval Expedition to Japan --- Japan --- United States --- Foreign relations