The literary merits of the travel writer's book are indisputable. Everything that N.V. Pinegin wrote and told about was seen and experienced by him, sometimes in a harsh and dangerous struggle. It is this quality - strict documentation, bright picturesqueness, accurate knowledge of northern nature - that distinguishes the books of N.V. Pinegin, which often served as the main source for other authors to describe the tragic fate of Sedov's polar expedition.