Te, who is familiar with the brilliant and scandalous career of the naturalist-dragon expert Isabella Camhurst , Possibly , I think , as if already familiar with all the details of her historic voyage aboard the Fleet of His Majesty's Research Vessel "Vasilisk" However, the true story of this instructive, Horrifying , odious travel has never been made public - until now. Six years after the deadly Erigan adventures, Isabella embarks on the grandest (so far) of her expeditions a two-year circumnavigation of the world in order to study dragons of all varieties in all possible habitats. And all these creatures - from feathered snakes, fond under the sun on the ruins of a vanished civilization, to the mighty sea snakes of the tropics - are not only infinitely delightful, but also often dangerous. Isabella is accompanied not only by her young son Jake, but also by a chivalrous foreign archaeologist, whose scientific and personal interests perfectly coincide with the scientific and personal interests of Isabella herself. Of course, the main purpose of the journey is science, but the life of Isabella is rarely so simple. The path to a revolutionary discovery, radically changing scientific views on the ancient history of dragons, is blocked not only by storms and shipwrecks, but also by political intrigues, and even war.