On the edge of the oykumen

Would you like to go on a distant and dangerous journey through amazing Africa? To immerse yourself in secrets and riddles of ancient Egypt? The outstanding science fiction writer Ivan Antonovich Efremov leads his reader into the depths of times, forcing to survive the exciting and exciting adventures with the heroes of the book.
The Great Pharaoh Jedefra wanted to know all the vastness of the world and sent a naval expedition to the south under the leadership of his treasurer of Baurjed to look for a distant and mysterious country of Punt. And the young sculptor Pandion, captured by the beauty of art, leaves his lover in his homeland and goes to Crete - to get acquainted with the ancient culture of this island. The young men fall out of heavy trials and deprivations, and soon his only thought is the desire to return home ...
The illustrations of Oleg Pakhomov help the reader to completely immerse himself in the long -gone era of the reign of Egyptian pharaohs.

About the illustrator:
Oleg Pakhomov is a young talented artist. Born in Sergiev Posad. He graduated from RCHTI with a degree in design. He began his career as a journal illustrator, inspired by the work of the famous Russian artist Igor Oleinikov. In the book illustration of Oleg Pakhomov, details are especially possible that immerse the reader into a fictional world invented by the author. In the publishing house "Nigma" with the illustrations of Oleg Pakhomov, the books "floating island", "Diamond pipe", "adventures of balloonists", "Hyperboloid engineer Garin" and others were published