About the book: 1969 / In the book "Solnyshkin's Merry Voyage" I told how Alyosha Solnyshkin came from a distant Siberian village to the Pacific Ocean. The old inspector of the ocean shipping company Robinson gave him a wonderful compass and helped him get onto the ship “Give!” to his pupil Moryakov. But Moryakov fell ill with measles. And instead of him, a captain nicknamed “We Swim-We Know” came to the ship. He forced Solnyshkin to catch smoke on a pipe and pump the sea from left to right. The cleaning lady Taya was evicted from her cabin in order to place a parrot there. And with his friend Styopka, an artel worker, he threw radio operator Perchikov onto a desert island. But Perchikov sailed to the ship on a whale and, in the meantime, rescued a dolphin from trouble. Solnyshkin outwitted Plavali-Know and delivered trained bears to Okeansk, whom boatswain Burun loved very much... When the book came out, many guys began to ask: “Where is Solnyshkin now! What is he doing? I answer everyone as it is written on the cover of this book: “Solnyshkin is sailing to Antarctica.” Author