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The pure land - Alan Spence X there's a good chance you'dLarge paperback, taped spine, cover has some wear, first page torn out, yellowing pages Historical Fiction The year is 1858. Thomas Glover is a restless young man with dreams of escaping Aberdeen. Abandoning his childhood sweetheart, he takes a posting as a trader in Japan. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune, learns the ways of the samurai and helps overthrow the Shogun a rapid rise from lowly shipping clerk to millionaire industrialist. Yet