About the book: 1977 / Stories and essays about the Russian North and about the people of “quiet constant courage” who inhabit it: sailors and fishermen from Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Mezen , about the islanders of Novaya Zemlya. The publication of "Roman-Gazeta" included several short stories about the writer's travels on fishing seiners and hunting schooners, a complex psychological study revealing the search for a moral principle, a hymn to the brotherhood of North Sea workers, a loving description of northern nature seen through the eyes of a hunter, white nights, powerful sea inhabitants , as well as an essay on the courage with which a writer should work on his works.