English prose writer De-Ware Stackpoole is the author of more than forty different books. Not only a writer, but also a tireless traveler, not only a fiction writer, but also a poet, not only an artist, but also a critic; over the many years of his literary work, he wove a bizarre creative fabric. But with all the diversity of Stackpoole’s work, one can still find his main line of writing. This is an adventurous genre. Sometimes departing from it, Stackpool, after a short break, always returned to this genre, increasing the number of his adventure works. He was irresistibly attracted to distant exotic countries, stormy seas and hot tropics, still untouched by civilization, people with strong muscles and an unbending will. The writer tried to convey all this to the reader on the pages of his works, which rightfully stand on a par with the novels of such classics of the maritime and adventure-colonial genre as D. Defoe, T. Smollett, F. Marriet, F. Chemer, C. Wilson, L. Stevenson, D. Conrad, D. Bon, E. Noble and others. The collection includes the stories: “The Blue Lagoon” “Coral Ship” “Island of Palm Trees” “Lakes of Silence”