Scottish Samurai

The singular life of the nineteenth-century Scottish merchant who brought the West to Japan is illuminated in this fascinating biography: “This is a great story” ( Financial Times ). In Scottish Samurai , biographer Alexander McKay chronicles Thomas Blake Glover’s influential life in the East. Glover arrived in Nagasaki in 1859, just as Japan was opening to the West. Within a few years, he had played a crucial part in the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate, providing the rebels with modern arms