Which of us has not watched with bated breath the adventures of the pirates of the Caribbean and dreamed of climbing the shrouds, waving a cutlass? Who hasn’t imagined himself at the helm of the Hispaniola or digging up the treasure of old Flint’s piastres? Well, Chris (aka Christophe, aka Crisoforo) did it all - and much more. Having somehow arrived from the 21st century to the 17th century, he goes from a sailor on a merchant ship to a pirate captain, chases a golden caravan and storms Maracaibo, hunts a killer ghost and finds his true love, only to lose her, only to find her again...For the first time in Russian - a new novel by the author of the tetralogy “The Book of the New Sun” and the duology “The Knight-Sorcerer”, a writer whom Ursula Le Guin called “our genre Melville”, Neil Gaiman - “the most talented, subtle and unpredictable of our modern writers”, and Michael Swanwick - “the greatest living English-language author.”