Islands and captains. Book 1. Chronometer. Krapivin V.P.

In the novel “Chronometer”, which opens the trilogy of “Islands and Captains”, all important topics of the books of Vladislav Krapivin are intertwined - childhood, growing up, relations of children and parents, and, of course, love of the sea and ships. Tolika Nechaev was lucky to be present at the birth of a book about Captain Kruzenshtern and about the first Russian round -the -world expedition: the writer Kurganov, a passionate researcher of the marine exploits of Russia, gained a grateful reader and assistant in the boy.

Tolik is trying to figure out what happened a lot years ago on the ship "Nadezhda" during a dangerous and glorious journey. The book is waiting for a difficult fate-it will be at the center of almost detective history, which will be developed in two other parts of the trilogy.

for children 12-15 years old.