The famous St. Petersburg writer, author of twelve books of prose, talks in a new book about the filming of a documentary film and his adventures while traveling. Filming took place in France, Monaco, Egypt, Costa Rica, Sudan. The author writes about amazing meetings in Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor; about collecting sugar cane, about meeting a scorpion and poisonous snake catcher; about underwater diving and dangerous currents, feeding sharks off the coast of Sudan and night shark hunting in the Pacific Ocean off the uninhabited pirate island of Cocos; about the dangers that await divers at depth; about diving in the Red Sea to the sunken ships “Umbria”, “Thistlegorm” and much more.