Life full of adventure

Millions of people around the world can tell the biography of the ingenious detective of Sherlock Holmes. The number of those who know the details of the life of his literary "father" Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is much less. A descendant of an ancient British family, he studied at the Jesuit School, but he preferred the career of medicine. As a ship doctor, he traveled all the light and had no less dangerous adventure no less than Holmes. And the writer conveyed many features of his character to his equally famous character - Dr. Watson.
In the book of memoir prose, Arthur Conan Doyle, in addition to the autobiographical story "Memories and Adventures", entered the essay "behind the magic door", letters and articles