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Original Title:	Человек-амфибия
ISBN:	5050006597 (ISBN13: 9785050006592)
Edition Language:	English

The Amphibian Hardcover | Pages: 127 pages

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Title	:	The Amphibian
Author	:	Alexander Belyaev
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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Okay, I don't know about this edition, but maybe my topmost beef was that I read an edition that was translated from Russian to English VERBATIM. And Russian grammar and sentence structure doesn't always apply to English. At best, it makes the wording sound "foreign." At worst, the English grammar comes off wrong. I couldn't help cringing at the grammatical mistakes a few times. And the redundancy. Also, the translator, Maria K., needs a better editor in general as I caught a few very

I have to re-read the book....so many years have passed.

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.

So I actually wrote a really long review of this book after I finished it, but then my wifi died and Goodreads ate the review, so I'm just going to say.... Take a good long look at the shitty photo-shopped cover. That is exactly the quality of book you are going to get.

Interenting though....

the best sci-fiction i ever read