“Times of the Sea” is an amazing fusion of psychological travel novel and adventure prose with elements of a family saga. The story of the chase of a huge Greenland shark in the waters of Norway, echoing Melville’s “Moby Dick” and Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” amazes and attracts with its intonation, friendly and surprisingly respectful towards marine life, even if it is a huge and dark monster, like a shark. The story about catching a monster is elegantly combined with the memories of the two main characters about the fate of their families, with old legends about ancient underwater monsters and with professional fishing tips.