This book is a story about an endless series of adventures. They happened to a man who was born in Rio de Janeiro and spent his whole life searching for his lost homeland. As a reporter, he went on long voyages on ocean-going ships, visited many European countries, Africa, a dozen states of America, Mexico... His journalistic paths stretched from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to Tashkent. And everywhere he came across many interesting, unusual, surprising things. This easily written, fascinating book is about what the author witnessed and how he rediscovered his homeland.