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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Professor, Derrick, China entitled The Road to Samarcand.
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conversations.value: The Road to Samarcand: Derrick is an American teenager who came to China with his missionary parents.\nHe was orphaned and taken under his uncle\'s care aboard the sailing ship The Wanderer.\nDerrick is at the wheel of the sailing ship in the South China Sea.\nThe boy\'s uncle, Captain Sullivan of the Asian Pacific shipping trade, feels the time has come to prepare Derrick for his future.\nHe, his companion Ross and Derrick\'s older cousin, all believe that the youth must now leave the ship and attend school in England.\nThis cousin, Professor Ayrton, is en route to China from England.\nHe is an elderly, highly educated man and an expert in oriental archaeology.\nDerrick is unhappy with the prospect of leaving the ship, and Professor Ayrton proposes "to gild the pill of education" by taking the youth back to England via the famous road to Samarcand.\nThe story begins during a voyage on the South China Sea, where almost at once Derrick\'s ship encounters a typhoon.\nSurviving this perilous experience, the ship under Captain Sullivan reaches shore and completes the rendezvous with Professor Ayrton.\nThe party is equipped for the journey to the road to Samarcand.\nMembers of the party include his relatives, Cousin Ayrton and Uncle Sullivan; Derrick, himself; Sullivan\'s intrepid companion, Ross; the ship\'s Chinese cook, Li Han; and one of Captain Sullivan\'s seamen, Olaf Svenssen.\nHorses and Mongolian guides are engaged: Derrick becomes a skilled horseman and learns to speak Mongolian.\nThis circuitous route sends the band to areas that reveal interesting aspects of the Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan cultures.\nSome adventures are fruitful but not dangerous, as when Derrick and his Mongolian companion ride out to hunt with a falcon and when the Professor acquires jade treasure; some involve danger.\nThe latter includes imprisonment, escape, brushes with revolutionaries and bandits, and hand-to-hand fighting.\nThe party becomes involved in deadly skirmishes at a time in history when the old skills of warfare are bowing to superior firepower.\nAs this state-of-affairs turns dramatic, Professor Ayrton is forced to pass himself off as a Russian Army officer who specialises in armament.\nHe is anything but an expert and does not know how to fire a gun when the expedition begins.\nOther adventures involve dangers crossing a glacier where the party must face both blizzard conditions and inimical monks masquerading as yeti, and the loss and eventual rediscovery of party-members Ross, Li Han and Olaf.\nAs the final adventure, the little group escapes disaster in a functioning helicopter, which has been abandoned near the monastery where the band has been virtually imprisoned.\nThere is spare gasoline in a can, and the party is flown away by Ross.\nHe is completely inexperienced as a helicopter pilot; Ross has mechanical prowess and is the only party member who succeeds in starting the engine.\nRoss is brave and has a history as the captain of a ship at sea.\nAirborne and finally out of danger, the party sees below on the ground their goal, the road to Samarcand.
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conversations.value: The Road to Samarcand: Derrick is an American teenager who came to China with his missionary parents. \nHe was orphaned and taken under his uncle\'s care aboard the sailing ship The Wanderer. \nDerrick is at the wheel of the sailing ship in the South China Sea. \nThe boy\'s uncle, Captain Sullivan of the Asian Pacific shipping trade, feels the time has come to prepare Derrick for his future. \nHe, his companion Ross and Derrick\'s older cousin, all believe that the youth must now leave the ship and attend school in England. \nThis cousin, Professor Ayrton, is en route to China from England. \nHe is an elderly, highly educated man and an expert in oriental archaeology. \nDerrick is unhappy with the prospect of leaving the ship, and Professor Ayrton proposes "to gild the pill of education" by taking the youth back to England via the famous road to Samarcand. \nThe story begins during a voyage on the South China Sea, where almost at once Derrick\'s ship encounters a typhoon. \nSurviving this perilous experience, the ship under Captain Sullivan reaches shore and completes the rendezvous with Professor Ayrton. \nThe party is equipped for the journey to the road to Samarcand. \nMembers of the party include his relatives, Cousin Ayrton and Uncle Sullivan; Derrick, himself; Sullivan\'s intrepid companion, Ross; the ship\'s Chinese cook, Li Han; and one of Captain Sullivan\'s seamen, Olaf Svenssen. \nHorses and Mongolian guides are engaged: Derrick becomes a skilled horseman and learns to speak Mongolian. \nThe party follows a circuitous route to the road to Samarcand to travel in safety and to satisfy Professor Ayrton\'s archaeological wishes. \nThis circuitous route sends the band to areas that reveal interesting aspects of the Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan cultures. \nSome adventures are fruitful but not dangerous, as when Derrick and his Mongolian companion ride out to hunt with a falcon and when the Professor acquires jade treasure; some involve danger. \nThe latter includes imprisonment, escape, brushes with revolutionaries and bandits, and hand-to-hand fighting. \nThe party becomes involved in deadly skirmishes at a time in history when the old skills of warfare are bowing to superior firepower. \nAs this state-of-affairs turns dramatic, Professor Ayrton is forced to pass himself off as a Russian Army officer who specialises in armament. \nHe is anything but an expert and does not know how to fire a gun when the expedition begins. \nOther adventures involve dangers crossing a glacier where the party must face both blizzard conditions and inimical monks masquerading as yeti, and the loss and eventual rediscovery of party-members Ross, Li Han and Olaf. \nAs the final adventure, the little group escapes disaster in a functioning helicopter, which has been abandoned near the monastery where the band has been virtually imprisoned. \nThere is spare gasoline in a can, and the party is flown away by Ross. \nHe is completely inexperienced as a helicopter pilot; Ross has mechanical prowess and is the only party member who succeeds in starting the engine. \nRoss is brave and has a history as the captain of a ship at sea. \nAirborne and finally out of danger, the party sees below on the ground their goal, the road to Samarcand.