About the book: 1975 / Book by D.V. Naumov - impressions of a participant in an expedition to the tropical islands of the Pacific Ocean. The author, head of the Leningrad Zoological Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences, visited the Maclay Coast, saw a folk festival in Fiji, and visited places associated with the life of R. Stevenson in Samoa. The book tells about the nature and people of Oceania, about atolls and coral reefs, sharks, crocodiles, beautiful shells, predatory “crowns of thorns” and about corals - the builders of many thousands of islands in Oceania.