The road to Samarcand
By: Patrick O'Brian.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780393064735
Subjects: Teenage boys -- Fiction.; Americans -- Asia, Central -- Fiction.; Americans -- China -- Tibet -- Fiction.; Antiquities -- Fiction.; Asia, Central -- Fiction.; Tibet (China) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Setting out with his rough seafaring uncle and an elderly archaeologist cousin after the deaths of his missionary parents, 1930s American teen Derrick joins a culturally lavish search for a cache of priceless Asian jade.