Iznanka belogo.Arktika ot vikingov do papanintsev - Aliev R.

What attracts people to the Arctic? How can we strive where cold and silence reign? Answering these questions, the author - scientist and polar explorer Ramiz Aliyev - talks about what the Arctic was for mankind in different eras.

For many, it has become a place of feats in the name of science, someone set "sports" records, competing for the right to first reach the pole or pave a new path. Many of them got behind the Arctic Circle at the will of others, as prisoners.

Possessing extensive knowledge in this topic, the author paints a voluminous picture of the development of the Arctic in front of the reader, not afraid to present his own, sometimes paradoxical view of the history and place of personality in this story. so seriously and deeply analyzing the relationship between the Arctic and man, and doing it in a popular and exciting form.