Predlagaemaya chitatelyam kniga - povest-vospominanie o rabote avtora v geologicheskikh ekspeditsiyakh na Kolyme i v Yakutii, gde on provel v obshchey slozhnosti okolo tridtsati let. Tut i pervoe znakomstvo s Magadanom, ucheba v tekhnikume i ezhegodno pyat mesyatsev skitaniy po goram, tayge, i tundre. Kazhdyy god novye neizvedannye dali, novye vpechatleniya. Eto rabota vmeste s zaklyuchennymi i otsidevshimi srok nakazaniya, druzhba i splochennost lyudey, priekhavshikh na Sever po veleniyu serdtsa, romanticheski nastroennykh, uvlechennykh svoim delom, nikogda ne padavshikh dukhom. Vse eto...