Who says history is boring? Meet Ran ‘Makidon’ MacDonald, scholar-cum-whale hunter who sets off on a high-seas adventure in the hopes of being among the first to set foot in Japan.
The problem? Japan is still closed to the outside world, under a strict edict of samurai code. His plan? To smuggle himself behind the ‘bamboo curtain’ by faking a boat wreck. Little does he know, he is not the only one.
Based on a true story, Gates Ajar is the tale of 19th century Métis adventurer who dreams beyond limits of racial categories or fur trade ambitions and who dares to forge an identity of his own.
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