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The Road to Samarcand: An Adventure - Softcover

O'Brian, Patrick

 
9780393333169: The Road to Samarcand: An Adventure
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393333167 ISBN 13: 9780393333169
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

This story begins where Patrick O'Brian's devoted fans would want it to, with a sloop in the South China Sea barely surviving a killer typhoon. The time is the 1930s and the protagonist a teenaged American boy whose missionary parents have just died. In the company of his rough seafaring uncle and an elderly English cousin, an eminent archaeologist, Derrick sets off in search of ancient treasures in central Asia.Along the way they encounter a charismatic Chinese bandit and a host of bad characters, including Russian agents fomenting unrest. The narrative touches on surprising subjects: astronomy, oriental philosophy, the correct identification of ancient Han bronzes, and some very local cuisine. It ends in an ice-bound valley, with the party caught between hostile Red-Hat monks and the Great Silent Ones, the Tibetan designation for the yeti.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

One of our greatest contemporary novelists, Patrick O'Brian is the author of the twenty volumes of the best-selling Aubrey/Maturin series, as well as many other books, including Testimonies, The Golden Ocean, The Unknown Shore, and biographies of Joseph Banks and Picasso.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393333167
ISBN 13 
9780393333169
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
269
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