The collection publishes travel diaries, articles, and letters by the great Russian traveler Nikolai Nikolayevich Miklouho-Maclay. The central place is taken by his accounts of his stay on the Maclay Coast, his relationships with the Papuans, and the triumph of friendship, humanity, and mutual understanding. The book reveals the moral character of the Russian democratic scholar and his life principles; before the reader stands a difficult, full of drama life path.