The island of the dead ships

The works of Alexander Belyaev, included in the book, are united by the theme of marine wanderings, underwater research and risky adventures in the ocean spaces, which will surely remind the reader about “human man-and-man”-the most famous novel of the famous Russian science fiction writer. In the “Last Man from Atlantis” (1925), the New York manufacturer Mr. Solly, the scientific expedition with the aim of finding the legendary island state, once described in Plato’s dialogs, and one of the results of these research is the fascinating story of Professor Larison about the last days of civilization Atlantov ... In the “Island of the Dead Ships” (1927), the transatlantic steamer “Veniamin Franklin” suffered during the storm with the three passengers remaining on board - the arrested criminal who escorted him in the United States by the detective and young daughter of the billionaire - enters the hidden ocean course, in the streamlines. The waters of the Sargassov Sea, on an artificial island from the crashed vessels, which, oddly enough, turns out to be inhabited ... In the Underwater agriculture (1930) a story about the everyday life of the agrarian farm on the breeding of algae, spread out on the Pacific Day, develops into the utopia of a new society united joint work and scientific search