The Road to Samarcand - Patrick O’Brian

Category: Action, Adults, Adventure, Classic
Language: English
Keywords: 1930s Action Fiction Adventure american literature South China Sea

Written by Patrick O’Brian
Read by Simon Vance
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged

The Road to Samarcand is a novel by English author Patrick O’Brian, published in 1954 and set in Asia during the 1930s. Derrick, an American teen, is brought to China with his missionary parents, then orphaned. He goes to sea with his uncle Captain Sullivan and Ross, the Captain’s friend, starting out on the South China Sea. They are the core of a group who has adventures on the road to Samarcand, using skills as required by the challenges of the journey, often for the first time in their lives. They begin on the oldest ways of transportation and end on the newest.