Mayne Reed - Lost in the Ocean. Gift book bound in leather.

Thomas Mayne Reid is an English writer, author of adventure novels and works for children and youth, some of which were published under the pseudonym Captain Mayne Reid.

The novel "Lost in the Ocean" refers to the "marine theme" of the writer. A slave ship carrying Africans to America for sale into slavery is wrecked. The crew finds themselves in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean without a ship. In such a situation, everyone showed their essence, and not everyone could remain human.

The hero of the novel "The Hunt for Leviathan" is Captain Macy. His life is full of adventures and exoticism. An old warrior and the best harpooner remembers his youth when he joined Captain Drinkwater to go in pursuit of an unknown flat-headed sea monster and what it led to.