About the book: 1938 / Book about the Russian scientist-anthropologist N. N. Miklukha-Maclay, explorer of the coast of New Guinea, where he looked for answers to some questions regarding the evolution of the animal world in general, and also wanted to solve the main problem facing all anthropologists at that time - the problem of the origin and development of human races. An anatomist in his youth, he then focused on anthropology and ethnography, and at the end of his life he thought only about the fate of the Maclay coast, about his Papuan friends and about the founding of a utopian colony on the Pacific Islands.