Forty Explorers

Do you know who explorers are? They are people who can't sit still: they are always inventing, imagining, and searching for something new, unknown, mysterious — on land, underground, in water, underwater, in the air, and even in space. "Well, there aren't many such people," you might think. But that's not true! In this book by Sergey Golitsyn, there are as many as forty explorers: thirty kids and ten quite grown-ups, even elderly, respectable people. An irrepressible thirst for discoveries drives them time and again to set out on a journey — on foot, by steamboat, by train — getting into funny situations, enduring travel inconveniences, crawling underground, and climbing high towers… Step by step, the explorers draw closer to unraveling the mystery of an old portrait of a beautiful girl with sad eyes. The extraordinarily lively and expressive illustrations for the book were drawn by the wonderful graphic artist Stanislav Zabaluev. Each character he depicted has its own story, its own image, and character. The tireless explorers, drawn by the master, live, breathe, and move on the pages of the book.