About the book: 1967 / Alexey Alekseevich Kirnosov (1932-1980) - sailor, studied at the Preparatory Naval and 1st Baltic Naval Schools (1947 -1952). In the 1950s-60s he served on rescue ships of the Northern Fleet and worked on merchant fleet ships in the Arctic. Writer, author of the books "The Simple Sea" (1961), "The Desert Island" (1965), "Two Aprils" (1967), "A Little Land in a Big Sea" (1977), "A Date with the Sea" (1981), "Steps " (1981), etc..