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| Original Title: | Человек-амфибия |
| ISBN: | 5050006597 (ISBN13: 9785050006592) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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| Title | : | The Amphibian |
| Author | : | Alexander Belyaev |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special 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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Ratings: 4.13 From 3692 Users | 131 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books The Amphibian
I enjoyed this book very much. Someday I'll read it again.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
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.
I have to re-read the book....so many years have passed.
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
Beleaev is one of the forefathers of modern SciFi/Fiction. A great story. It does lack some balance, unfortunately. Certain descriptions are long and detailed, while some parts of the story seem rushed and sketchy. It could have been better in terms of writing, but the idea behind it is great. It makes me think of China Miéville's The Scar, which is quite modern, but has some things in common.
I came across this book by a native adaptation of this book by Muhammad jafar iqbal. As much as I have been emotionally involved with serina, amphibian man has touched my heart in a completely different way. I have felt the crulity faced and the confusions . The every little detail of this book got me A lot wonderfully crafted book which will take a place in every readers life as a significant part .I will return to this book again and again . I can't get over the strange feeling it has given .
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