The Story of Yuriwaka: A Japanese Odyssey

by Erik Haugaard

Hardcover, 1991

Status

Available

Local notes

398.2 Hau

Barcode

3798

Collection

LS/GENERAL [#]

Genres

Children's Books

Fiction

Publication

Roberts Rinehart Pub (1991), Hardcover, 42 pages

Description

A retelling of Homer's Odyssey in which Odysseus is transformed into Yuriwaka, the strongest man in Japan, who commands the Emperor's ships battling the pirates of Shiragi.

Physical description

42 p.; 8.98 inches

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