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The Road to Samarcand: Literary Connections, Art & Regions

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…

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The Road to Samarcand topic overview

The analysis highlights Literary Connections, Art and Regions as prominent areas in the source structure around The Road to Samarcand.

Related topics
22
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
30
Extracted relationships
83
Related term clusters
9
Bridge connections
30

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Relationship to Aubrey-Maturin series · 9 topics
Plot summary · 7 topics
Overview · 3 topics
Plot introduction · 2 topics
Reviews · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Author
Patrick O'Brian
Genre
Adventure novel
Publication date
1955
Publisher
Rupert Hart-Davis
Cover artist
Ralph Thompson
Language
English

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Plot summary

Reviews

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Bibliography

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How The Road to Samarcand connects Entity context

The extracted context around The Road to Samarcand shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, The Road to Samarcand → Captain Sullivan, Captain Sullivan's, Chinese, Cousin Ayrton, Derrick, Derrick's, Horses, Li Han, Members, Mongolian, Olaf Svenssen, Professor, Professor Ayrton, Professor Ayrton's, Ross, Russian Army, Samarcand, South China Sea, Sullivan's, Surviving Another extracted example is The Road to Samarcand → Although, Aubrey, Aubrey-Maturin, Both Captain Sullivan, Captain Aubrey, Captain Sullivan, Described, Jack Aubrey, Joseph Conrad, Maturin, O'Brian's, Patrick O'Brian, Professor Ayrton, Ross, Samaracand, Samarcand, Stephen Maturin, Sullivan, The Road. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

The Road to Samarcand

Top relations

related to Plot summary · 22
The Road to Samarcand → Captain Sullivan, Captain Sullivan's, Chinese, Cousin Ayrton, Derrick, Derrick's, Horses, Li Han, Members, Mongolian, Olaf Svenssen, Professor, Professor Ayrton, Professor Ayrton's, Ross, Russian Army, Samarcand, South China Sea, Sullivan's, Surviving
related to Relationship to Aubrey-Maturin series · 19
The Road to Samarcand → Although, Aubrey, Aubrey-Maturin, Both Captain Sullivan, Captain Aubrey, Captain Sullivan, Described, Jack Aubrey, Joseph Conrad, Maturin, O'Brian's, Patrick O'Brian, Professor Ayrton, Ross, Samaracand, Samarcand, Stephen Maturin, Sullivan, The Road
related to Earlier short stories · 18
The Road to Samarcand → Although, Boys, Crosses, Dean King, Despite, Fourteen, No Pirates Nowadays, Noughts, O'Brian, Oxford Annual, Patrick O'Brian, Ross, Russ, Samarcand, Sullivan, The Road, Two's Company, Writing
related to Reviews · 8
The Road to Samarcand → Abominable Snowman, Earthy, O'Brian's, Publishers Weekly, Samarcand, Six, The Road, Tibetan
related to history · 4
The Road to Samarcand → Although, O'Brian, Samarcand, Silk Road
is a · 2
The Road to Samarcand → novel by English author Patrick O'Brian, route better known today as the Silk Road
Author · 1
The Road to Samarcand → Patrick O'Brian
Cover artist · 1
The Road to Samarcand → Ralph Thompson
Genre · 1
The Road to Samarcand → Adventure novel
Language · 1
The Road to Samarcand → English

Important terminology

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Important terminology

samarcand road sullivan captain series ship professor derrick o'brian ross aubrey-maturin ayrton novel o'brian's china patrick party sea characters wanderer

The Road to Samarcand relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 83 structured relationships around The Road to Samarcand. Examples in this analysis include The Road to Samarcand → Author → Patrick O'Brian and The Road to Samarcand → Cover artist → Ralph Thompson. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
The Road to SamarcandAuthorPatrick O'Brian1.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandCover artistRalph Thompson1.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandGenreAdventure novel1.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandLanguageEnglish1.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandMedia typePrint hardback1.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandOCLC854443411.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandPages2551.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandPublication date19551.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandPublication placeUnited Kingdom1.00infobox
The Road to SamarcandPublisherRupert Hart-Davis1.00infobox
The Road to Samarcandis anovel by English author Patrick O'Brian0.90text
The Road to Samarcandis aroute better known today as the Silk Road0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around The Road to Samarcand bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Samarcand, Series and Aubrey-maturin. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • The Road to Samarcand
    • Samarcand
    • Series
    • Aubrey-maturin
    • Novel
    • O'brian's
    • O'brian
    • Adventure
    • Characters
    • Party
    • Professor
    • Later
    • Relationship
  • the road to samarcand
    • Samarcand
    • Series
    • Aubrey-maturin
    • Novel
    • O'brian's
    • O'brian
    • Adventure
    • Characters
    • Party
    • Professor
    • Later
    • Relationship
  • road to samarcand
    • Samarcand
    • Series
    • Aubrey-maturin
    • Novel
    • O'brian's
    • O'brian
    • Adventure
    • Characters
    • Party
    • Professor
    • Later
    • Relationship
  • south china sea
    • South
    • Sea
    • Derrick
    • Ship
    • Story
    • Uncle
    • Aboard
    • Ross
    • Sailing
    • Series
    • Captain
    • Aubrey
  • relationship to aubrey-maturin series
    • Series
    • O'brian's
    • Relationship
    • Road
    • Story
    • O'brian
    • Samarcand
    • Characters
    • Novel
    • Patrick
    • Brought
    • Later
  • patrick o'brian
    • O'brian
    • Patrick
    • Relationship
    • Aubrey-maturin
    • Samarcand
    • Road
    • Adventure
    • Series
    • Characters
    • Ross
    • Jack
    • Story
  • aubrey-maturin series
    • Series
    • O'brian's
    • Relationship
    • Road
    • Story
    • O'brian
    • Samarcand
    • Characters
    • Novel
    • Patrick
    • Brought
    • Later
  • samarcand
    • Series
    • Aubrey-maturin
    • Adventure
    • Characters
    • O'brian's
    • Party
    • Professor
    • Later
    • Relationship
    • Ayrton
    • Time
    • Olaf

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For The Road to Samarcand, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects The Road to Samarcand with Relationship to Aubrey-Maturin series. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
The Road to Samarcand — Relationship to Aubrey-Maturin series · splits 21 ⟂ 10
The Road to Samarcand — Plot summary · splits 23 ⟂ 8
The Road to Samarcand — Overview · splits 27 ⟂ 4
The Road to Samarcand — Plot introduction · splits 28 ⟂ 3
The Road to Samarcand — Bibliography · splits 28 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

The Road to Samarcand

Nodes31
Edges30
Triples83
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.064516
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around The Road to Samarcand to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Literary Connections, Art & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — The Road to Samarcand · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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