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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 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.
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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.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Road to Samarcand | Author | Patrick O'Brian | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | Cover artist | Ralph Thompson | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | Genre | Adventure novel | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | Language | English | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | Media type | Print hardback | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | OCLC | 85444341 | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | Pages | 255 | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | Publication date | 1955 | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | Publication place | United Kingdom | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | Publisher | Rupert Hart-Davis | 1.00 | infobox |
| The Road to Samarcand | is a | novel by English author Patrick O'Brian | 0.90 | text |
| The Road to Samarcand | is a | route better known today as the Silk Road | 0.90 | text |
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.
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.
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