Bill Barsuk and "Free Wind"

"You will go on a distant journey. Great luck and incredible adventures are waiting for you! "

When the blind Rat-Peshayka predicts the old lonely badger, nicknamed Uncle Bill, his fate, he at first does not believe this prophecy, but very soon his life changes sharply. One of the friends gives Uncle Bill an old barge called "free wind", on which you can swim through the British channels, and at the same time asks to fulfill an important assignment: take a chest with gold coins to the bank, which will be hidden in the hold under the cargo of chestnuts. But it soon turns out that on the shores of the canal, a gang of ferocious cats-robbers is hosting, who at night take raids on barges and rob boaters. Will Uncle Bill be able to get to the destination intact and unharmed and deliver a chest with money to the bank?

This exciting story was written in the best traditions of the bestseller up on the fence and vice versa: fascinating adventures, unexpected turns of the plot, more than 30 stylish black and white illustrations and an incomparable atmosphere of truly classical literary work " old school ", undeservedly forgotten and open again.

In Russian is published for the first time