Geography

This publication is the first publicly available collection of works by sinologist and ethnographer P. V. Shkurkin (1868–1943), one of the most famous orient...

In the history of maritime robbery, it is difficult to find a more sinister figure than the “general of the pirates of Tortuga” Francois Olone. His first bio...

“... Hyenas howled at night. Borodin had chills running down his spine: he believed that hyenas were something from Gehenna, from the hellish underworld. Hip...

“... Eliseev lived among the Tuaregs, like Aleko among the gypsies. He sat with them by the evening fires, ate asinko - delicious porridge, ate meat fried ov...

“... A cutting pain tore his chest apart like an ax. And suddenly, through a whistle, a hiss, a squeal: “Hold on... Wrangel lay on the edge of the ice floe. ...

“... The hospital was always crowded. Not only residents of Addis Ababa were treated by Russian doctors. From the plateaus smoothed by the winds, from the ri...

The collection of the best stories by South African writer Lawrence Green tells about the mysteries of African nature and the past of the Dark Continent. The...

The famous zoologist Vladimir Dinets, the author of popular books about wildlife and travel, takes the reader into a whirlpool of incredible adventures. Almo...

The final, fifth volume of the author’s complete works includes the story “So Bored in Utopia”, the stories “The One Who Came Out of the Big Water”, “Stains ...

A story about a trip to Europe and a meeting in London with friends from a past life. It all starts at the birthday celebration of the presenter of the BBC R...

In the winter of 2023, Helyulya and I went to the Kaliningrad region in search of the Prussian trace. We saw the “last soldiers of Germany”, met wild foxes, ...