The Albatross and the Great Bird Rush
by
Akitoshi Hiraoka
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese “closed-door” policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the nineteenth century. The birds’...