The history of exploring and mastering the boundless expanses of the World Ocean is a story of courage, enterprise, and perseverance. At the center of the grand concept of the popular French writer Georges Blon is Man and the Sea in their diverse, complex, almost mystical relationships. All great navigators were, in a certain sense, prisoners of the sea, which forever captured their hearts: no matter how terrible the hardships of the sea voyage became, they always yearned once again to face the formidable element, to encounter new dangers and discoveries. Columbus, Magellan, Heyerdahl—all of them, like the ancient Vikings or Phoenicians before them, were obsessed with the sea, the dream of new sea routes, and unknown lands. The sea epic of Georges Blon tells about the great conquerors of the great oceans. In this publication, stories about the three greatest oceans of the Earth—Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian—are illustrated with reproductions of paintings, engravings, maps, photographs—historical images, in one way or another connected with the fascinating plots of Georges Blon. In addition, the book is equipped with extensive reference material, including maps, dictionaries of names, maritime terms, and names of ships and aircraft..
