About the book: 2012 / The anthology includes fantastic works telling about geographical discoveries made in the high latitudes of both hemispheres of our planet. The book opens with a serious utopian story by Leonid Denisov. Despite the religious ecstasy that erupted in the fifth chapter, the description of the nature of the Far North and the Arctic Ocean is magnificent and unique in its emotional impact on the reader. What follows is a short story reconstructing the last days of the balloon flight of the Swedish Arctic explorer Andre Solomon August and the further fate of him and his comrades. The book also includes several stories collected from the pages of periodicals and little known to the reader. Contents: * Leonid Denisov. At the North Pole (story) * N. Zhurakovsky. The Mystery of the Polar Sea (story) * Lev Gumilevsky. Country of the Hyperboreans (story) * Z. Troev. Country of fiery rays (story) * Konstantin Volkov. The mystery of the nameless island (story) * Mikhail Evgenievich Skorokhodov. The Mystery of Wauli Island (story) * Igor Zabelin. Shadows of the oasis (story) * Boris Lyapunov. White spot (essay)