His constant search for extinct animals had taken him to the Far North, Eastern Siberia, Yakutia, the Urals, the Far East, Central and Inner Asia, Mongolia and Western China — always following untrodden paths.
In 1943 the scholar launched out as a writer of popular science-fiction; among his books are the romances Stellar Ships and Baurjed’s Travels.
In 1954 Yefremov finished his book The Road of the Winds, describing a 16, 000-mile journey in search of extinct animals in the windswept steppes of Mongolia. In 1957 he published a new popular-scientific romance The Galaxy of Andromeda the action of which takes place 2,500 years from now.
Yefremov’s is a twin talent, that of the scientist who strives for knowledge and the writer who must speak. Had he not been a scholar he would probably not have been such a writer, and if the scholar had not been an artist he would certainly not have been such a scholar.
CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I. THE SCULPTOR’S APPRENTICE
CHAPTER II. THE LAND OF FOAM
CHAPTER III. THE SLAVE OF PHARAOH
CHAPTER IV. THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
CHAPTER V. THE GOLDEN PLAIN
CHAPTER VI. THE ROAD OF DARKNESS
CHAPTER VII. THE MIGHT OF THE FOREST
CHAPTER VIII. THE SONS OF THE WIND
PROLOGUE
