We are accustomed to a magnet and treat it a little condescendingly, as an outdated attribute of school physics lessons, sometimes without even knowing how many magnets are around us. There are dozens of magnets in our apartment: in an electric shaver, speakers, a tape recorder, in jars with nails, finally. We ourselves are also magnets: the biocurrents flowing in us give rise to a bizarre pulsating pattern of magnetic lines of force around us. The land we live on is a giant blue magnet. However, no one will ever be able to say that he knows everything about the magnet. This problem is too immense. The author invites readers to make a fascinating journey into the world of magnets and their stories, through finds and losses, the joy of discovery and the bitterness of disappointment, years of fruitless thought and moments of dazzling insight.