About the book: 1978 / Every day, in any weather, an elderly man with glasses walks near a small pond not far from his house. He stands near the water for a long time, sometimes he catches one of the inhabitants of the pond, places it in an aquarium or puts it under a microscope... And so on from month to month, from year to year. Skillfully seasoning his own observations with information from scientific literature, the famous Danish writer Hans Scherfig wrote this small but kind and wise book, understandable and interesting to everyone.