Land of Salt Rocks

"Land of the Salt Rocks" is an autobiographical tale-mystification written by Sat-Ok (Stanislav Suplatovich), allegedly the son of the leader of the Shauni Indian tribe and the Polish revolutionary. The book became popular in Poland , the Soviet Union and other countries of the socialist camp. Her popularity was promoted by the fate of the author - a participant in the underground anti-fascist and partisan movements.

To the first Soviet edition of “Land of the Salt Rocks” Leo Kassil wrote the preface “On the Land of Salt Rocks and the Road of Bitter Tears”. The Russian translation was done by Yuri Stadnichenko, he also wrote an afterword; the book was published in 1964 at the Moscow publishing house " Children's Literature ". (Later, in 1980, Stadnichenko also made a Ukrainian translation of the book, published by the Kiev publishing house Veselka .) In the same year, a translation was made into Bulgarian , the book was published in the Sofia publishing house Narodnaya Molodezh. A year later, a German translation entered the GDR .

"Sat-Ok" in Indian means "Long Feather." In the book, the author recalls a childhood spent in the forests of Canada; talks about the life and customs of a hunting tribe.

Where every day is lived as the last, where you have to rely only on yourself, and rely on the mercy of nature and good spirits, where you don’t betray your friends and don’t betray your relatives, there is real life, the harsh and wonderful life of real Indians of Northern Canada. [one]

The book is recommended for reading for primary and secondary school students. ^{[2] [3]}