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 in 1858. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune. Yet behind Glovers astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart.
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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 in 1858. Within ten years he amasses a great fortune. Yet behind Glovers astonishing success lies a man cut to the heart.
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If you like to read about Japanese historical novels this book fills that bill. It does seem to simplify some of the cultural and historical elements however which makes it less satisfying.
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Apr 4, 2007
How the West started World War II
In The Pure Land by Alan Spence we see through one man?s story how Europe and America in their greed to make profits and build wealth through corporate empires created the atmosphere that eventually led to World War II and the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Japan. The protagonist, Thomas Glover, escaped Scotland at the age of eighteen to live in Japan, which America forced to open for trade with the West. The same thing was going on at the same time in China. Corporate capitalism requires growth in profits and growth in profits requires new markets. The Pure Land, historical fiction at its best, clearly shows how greed and capitalism in partnership leads to death and destruction on a grand scale. The Pure Land makes an ominous connection to what is happening in the world today. There is nothing wrong with free enterprise except when it is allowed to run wild without restrictions and little or no oversight. In this book the reader will experience first hand how this type of corruption works and gets out of hand. Of course for the individual making the money and having all the success it is all fun and games but for those of us left in their wake, there is nothing but suffering, death and destruction. This was a very convincing, well-written story of the life of a real man, Thomas Glover. After reading The Pure Land, the reader should reevaluate what success in life really is and what is important to the individual.