Forty Explorers

Do you know who explorers are? They are people who can't sit still: they are always inventing, creating, and searching for new, unknown, mysterious things - on land, underground, on 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-up, even elderly, respectable people. An unstoppable thirst for discoveries drives them to repeatedly set off on journeys - on foot, by steamboat, by train - getting into funny situations, enduring travel inconveniences, crawling underground, and climbing high towers… Step by step, the explorers get closer to solving the mystery of the old portrait of a beautiful girl with sad eyes.
Incredibly vivid and expressive illustrations for the book were drawn by the wonderful graphic artist Stanislav Zabaluev. Each character depicted by him has its own story, image, and character. The tireless explorers, drawn by the master, live, breathe, and move on the pages of the book.