Great Mysteries of the Oceans. The Pacific Ocean

The Chronicle of the Study and Conquest of the Boundless Spaces of the World Ocean is a chronicle of courage, enterprise, and persistence. At the center of the grand design of the popular French author Жорж Блон is Man and the Sea—their multifaceted, complex, almost mystical relationship. Great navigators, in a sense, turned out to be captives of the sea, which captured their hearts once and for all: no matter how the voyage was turned by hardships and deprivations, again and again they longed for the formidable element—for new dangers and discoveries. Columbus, Magellan, Heyerdahl—just as, long before them, the Vikings or the Phoenicians—were obsessed with the sea, the dream of new routes, and unknown lands. It is about the great conquerors of the great oceans that Жорж Блон’s sea epic tells.

In this edition, the narrative about one of the largest oceans on the planet—the Pacific—is supplemented with reproductions of vivid paintings, engravings, maps, and photographs, that is, historical images connected with Жорж Блон’s captivating storylines. In addition, the book is provided with an extensive reference apparatus: maps, dictionaries of names and of nautical terms, as well as the names of ships and aircraft.