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This book tells a detective story with the main line of fighting for gold coins lost during World War II. When the famous traveler Ibn Battuta died, the Sultan ordered one hundred gold coins to be minted and buried under a hundred intersections that the traveler had passed. However, his will was not fully implemented and the gold coins changed hands countless times. During World War II, the last owner died in a German fascist concentration camp, and the gold coin fell into the hands of the Berlin police chief. War-weary German police officers Hans and Ulrich dream of leaving Germany one day and living a free life in Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Chile. They accidentally discovered the sixty-three stolen gold coins in the cellar, and decided to take the gold coins and escape to Chile by boat via Hamburg. In Hamburg, their actions were discovered by the Gestapo. Hans was able to escape, but Ulrich was captured. Under severe torture for nearly four years, Ulrich never revealed the secret of Tierra del Fuego.

This book contains thirty-four short stories by Luis Sepulveda. These stories are about men and women who have never ceased to struggle, including Amazonian Indians, Jewish poets, Genoese across the Pampas, from Patagonia to Norway, from Argentina to Russia, from the Nazi concentration camps to the prisons of Pinochet, from the borders of Lapunia to the islands of the Adriatic Sea. He talked about the Chilean writer Francisco Coloane; the Jewish poet Avrom Suzkevel, whose name and fate are full of uncertainty; the pirate Simon von Utrecht who occupied Elba until 1400; the Ecuadorian trade union activist Vidal Sánchez who was committed to promoting cooperatives; the Italian quarrymen whose life and beauty are thousands of miles apart... They are hopelessly locked with tragedy. It seems that endless stories have one thing in common: the belief that behind an ordinary person, there is always a great deed worth writing.

After reading "Moby-Dick", a young man longed for life at sea. He came from Santiago to a strange port in southern Chile, boarded a whaling ship and became a sailor, and saw the seas sailed by heroes in reality and novels. Years later, he became a journalist and joined Greenpeace, living on the other side of the world. When he returned to the places he had traveled, it was for completely different reasons. Several pirate ships hunt marine animals in the frozen sea at the end of the world. He must follow the blood trail at sea, find evidence, and stop this barbaric act. This book collects four of Sepulveda's novellas, showing the characteristics of the Chilean writer as a traveler and environmentalist. By writing about his experiences of traveling to the end of the known world, he calls for a balance between ecology and human dreams. The lines are full of poetry, passion and tenderness.