About the book: 2022 / The book tells about the circumnavigations of famous captains, discoverers and explorers of new lands of the World Ocean in the 18th - early 19th centuries : Englishman James Cook and Frenchman Jean François La Perouse, Russian sailors under the command of Ivan Kruzenshtern and Yuri Lisyansky and French captain Jules Dumont-Durville. The book introduces continents, oceans, islands and countries. For middle and high school age. Illustration on the cover by V. V. Stukovnina. Artist S. Gonkov.