Gustav Emar is a recognized classic of the adventure genre, a novelist with extensive experience of sea voyages and dangerous expeditions to little-explored areas of Africa and South America. He commanded a pirate brigantine and languished in captivity among the Indians of Patagonia, and these adventures of the writer-adventurer are reflected in dozens of brilliant novels that are read in one breath. The collection includes two novels by Gustav Aimard.

The first, “Worshippers of the Snake” ", - about the sinister cult of Voodoo, about the magical rites and bloody rituals of the Haitian priests who took up arms against the white enslavers.

The second is about the confrontation between white settlers and Texas Indians, led by the brave and cruel leader nicknamed Black Bird. Edition prepared based on the text of 1898.