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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Condition:Like New You have saved your entireThe year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the high walled, fan shaped artificial island that is the Japanese Empires single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay; the farthest outpost of the war ravaged Dutch East Indies Company; and a de facto prison for the dozen foreigners permitted to live and work there. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, costly courtesans, earthquakes, and