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| Title | : | The Amphibian |
| Author | : | Alexander Belyaev |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 127 pages |
| Published | : | February 1986 by Raduga Publisher (first published 1927) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Fiction. Classics. Fantasy. Literature. Russian Literature |
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The Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Silent World begin yielding up its secrets on a really big scale, as aqualung and snorkel are doing today, and present to you Alexander Belayev's 1928 prevision of the ocean mastered by mankind.Sea-devil has appeared in the Rio de la Plata. Weird cries out at sea, slashed fishermen's nets, glimpses of a most queer creature astride a dolphin leave no room for doubt. The Spaniard Zurita, greed overcoming his superstition, tries to catch Sea-devil and force it to pearl-dive for him but fails.
On a lonely stretch of shore, not far from Buenos Aires, Dr. Salvator lives in seclusion behind a high wall, whose steel-plated gates only open to let in his Indian patients. The Indians revere him as a God but Zurita has a hunch that the God on land and the devil in the sea have something in common. Enlisting the help of two wily Araucanian brothers he sets out to probe the mystery.
As action shifts from the bottom of the sea to the Spaniard's schooner The Jellyfish and back again, with interludes in sun-drenched Buenos Aires and countryside, the mystery of Ichthyander the sea-devil is unfolded before the reader in a narrative as gripping as it informative.
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| Original Title: | Человек-амфибия |
| ISBN: | 5050006597 (ISBN13: 9785050006592) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 3692 Users | 131 ReviewsCrit Containing Books The Amphibian
I have to re-read the book....so many years have passed.I read this book aloud to my little brother when we were kids. It always brings back happy childhood memories. Its one of those books that stay with you forever. The ending is unforgettable and makes me long for the father I never knew.
It's hard to believe that the book was written nearly a hundred years ago. No wonder he's called the russian equivalent of Jules Verne. Definitely I will remember 'Ichthyander' for a long time.
Liked the overall idea. Yet the details were poorly shaped.Firstly, a whole lot of coincidences. The protagonist suddenly encounters his father. He saves a girl at the coast and she happens to be his sister. He falls in love with her and luckily she comes out to be an adopted sister. Finally her husband is the man who wants to kidnap our hero. I mean, well, that's clearly a plot abuse.It seems Belyaev had chosen Argentina as a distant land to leave his imagination unchecked by his Russian
The beginning of the book was a bit heavy because it was all about deceit and greed which just disgusted me, as it probably was intended to. However, I got much more excited when Ihtiander appeared and the science fiction always came into play, describing his abilities, the underwater world, and his naive goodness. It's interesting that the Salvatore's speech to the jury showed a motivation of giving humans the potential to use the ocean and quite possibly to destroy it's beauty. This left me
I enjoyed this book very much. Someday I'll read it again.
My favorite book of all times! I try to re-read it every year and it gets me every time!
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