About the book: 1990 / In the upper reaches of the Yenisei, archaeologists discovered the remains of a workshop of a jeweler who lived at the beginning of our era. Among other riches, pendants made from Baltic amber were found. The author, cultural historian and traveler, tried to find out how amber got to those distant lands. He devoted many years to studying this problem and put his hypothesis into an action-packed story. The book contains a lot of reliable information from the history, geography, culture of different peoples of Europe, Africa, Asia.