Pavel Malov

Zateryannyy Front: Istoriko-avantyurnyy Roman Pavel Malov Russian edition

V romane povestvuetsya o priklyucheniyakh v germanskoy kolonii Vostochnaya Afrika letom 1914 goda puteshestvennikov iz Rossiyskoy imperii, uchyenogo-istorika, professora Borisa Klyayna i dvukh ego sputnikov. Oni pribyli syuda, chtoby izuchat' zagadochnoe afrikanskoe plemya masaev. V silu nezavisyashchikh ot nikh obstoyatel'stv, puteshestvenniki v samom nachale romana razdelyayutsya: professor so studentom Levandovskim otpravlyayutsya k masayam, sluga Klyayna, kazak-nekrasovets iz Turtsii Ivan Merkulov ostayetsya v portovom gorode Tanga. Zdes' on znakomitsya s mestnoy arabkoy po imeni Shafika i puskaetsya na poiski sokrovishch zanzibarskikh kuptsov i piratov, kotorye, vozmozhno, spryatany v znamenitykh peshcherakh Amboni. V kontse kontsov Ivan Merkulov nakhodyat drevniy klad, no teryaet vozlyublennuyu? S professorom on bol'she tak i ne vstretitsya. Professor Klyayn so studentom Levandovskim okazyvayutsya v samoy gushche sobytiy: neodnokratno vstupayut v smertel'nye skhvatki s voinstvennymi tuzemtsami, stalkivayutsya s dikimi afrikanskimi zhivotnymi, znakomyatsya s prekrasnymi afrikankami. Deystvie prokhodit na fone razvorachivayushchikhsya v kolonii srazheniy Pervoy mirovoy voyny.