This book is about how real taiga people knew how to survive in the taiga, how they mastered certain taiga hunting skills. In it, the reader learns not only about the experience of the author himself, but about the experience of travelers of past years, and it is invaluable, because even today a fire must be made from the same frozen logs, and the snow still sticks to the skis, and it is still just as dangerous crossing on a mountain river, and the North Star still points to the north as it did thousands of years ago.