Frankly, it's hard to believe this is true, so the adventures experienced by Monfreid are amazing! it looks like Jules Verne or Stevenson, but that is the reality! By cons, it's very hard to get into this book (the first of the saga) does not know anything when the vocabulary of sailing and the sea. But with a good dico, everything lights (note, even without, you can figure ...). A really good adventure book. I can not wait to read the following ...