Someone is smilingly looking forward to a trip to Hawaii, Egypt, Spain - warm sea, blue sky, white ship... And someone is “called” by Central Taimyr, the name of the Tulay-Kiryaka-Tac mountain range sounds for him wondrous music, and the distant shores of the icy Laptev Sea attract him, beckon... Evgeny Vishnevsky - traveler, hunter, playwright, mathematician, skilled cook - was in those parts as part of many expeditions and kept notes every day... for any journey through Russia throws up such unexpected stories... And what culinary masterpieces are prepared at rest stops!..