About the book: 1939 / In order to tell anything fully and exhaustively about Evenkia, you need to live there for years. The entries in the notebook of a newspaper worker who visited these places while passing through, observing the life of the shores from board the ship, inevitably suffer from superficiality. But if the reader, after reading the book offered to his attention, has at least a general, approximate idea of ​​​​the nature of the places described, the life and customs of their population , if she expands his knowledge of the region, the author will consider his modest task completed.