About the book: year //Spin-off - a parallel story for the world of "The Landowner". The series will intersect. Mitka is the son of a bankrupt Pskov merchant. In search of a better life, he goes to the harsh Pomeranian land, where he dreams of finding his chance and reviving his father’s business. Mitka really finds a chance - the artel he assembled discovers in Varzina Bay the ships of the lost expedition of the Englishman Hugh Willoughby. The British are dead, the holds are full of goods... All we have to do is take our chance. Mitka, an adventurer by nature, decides to try on the role of an English captain. And the fact that in English you can’t hit the nail on the head is not a problem, where ours didn’t disappear?