About the book: 1961 / "A Simple Sea" is the first book by the young Leningrad writer Alexey Kirnosov. It includes three stories: “Wind”, “Gradus Closes Navigation” and “The Myth of the Argonauts”. A. Kirnosov's heroes are rescue sailors, hydrograph sailors, ferrymen of ships along the Northern Sea Route. A young writer, who today has not left his main - maritime - profession, talks about their daily work, full of tension and risk, about how they live, what they think about, what they worry about..