About the book: 1976 / Dr. Helmut Hanke (GDR) is a famous expert on the sea and everything connected with it. The Soviet reader is already familiar with his book “The Seventh Continent,” published in 1964 in Russian. The main character in it is the World Ocean. Helmut Hanke’s book “People, Ships, Oceans” offered to the reader went through a number of reprints in the GDR, the last of which, the fifth, published in 1972 by the Urania publishing house, was used for translation.