The Japans: A World he could not understand; A Gift he could not refuse; A Promise he could not keep; A Battle he could never win."Dejima: That cursed island is more of a prison than a trading post."1851: The world is at the cusp of a great industrial revolution. Newlywed Hendrik de Wolfe accepts a two-year assignment with the Dutch East India Company on the small solitary island of Dejima in the far-off Japans, a nation suspended in the middle-ages...