About the book: 1961 / This is the second issue of the artistic and geographical collection "On Land and at sea." Like the first, it belongs to the books published by the publishing house in the mass series “Travel. Adventures. Fantastic.” Reader! In this book you will find many interesting stories, novellas, essays, and articles. Reading them, you, together with the author and his heroes, will visit the construction site of the great Karakum gorge and the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, in the far harsh North and in the humid tropical forests of Burma, in the dense Ural taiga and in the “sultry” Rio de Janeiro, in the dry Trans-Volga steppe, in the vast expanses of the stormy Atlantic and in many other corners of the globe; you will go into space and to other star worlds; you will get acquainted with interesting facts, exciting mysteries and unusual assumptions of scientists.