About the book: 1984 / M. Loskutov's book "The Thirteenth Caravan" is not a novel or a story, as the author himself says about it. This is, rather, a kind of travel diary in which the author talks about one of the world's largest motor rallies, known as the “Karakum Motor Rally”. After reading this book, you will learn about how a motorway was first built through the Aral sands to the Karakum desert - the country "primordial sun and unbridled wind." You will travel together with the author, a participant in this expedition, from Moscow, with its magnificent metro and beautiful asphalt highways, to camel trails and sand dunes. You will learn about one of the most amazing construction projects of the young Soviet Republic, the construction of a sulfur plant in the center of the Karakum desert; about selfless drivers who made a heroic journey through the desert, where “there are no traffic lights, but there are dunes and saxaul thickets like nothing else.” “Those who like to read about distant countries,” the author wrote, “may also love this book.” " In it, fires burn on caravan trails, car signals blare, scientists work, plants grow, people live, and the broken body of a car lying in the Central Karakum desert is a memory of the people who conquered the sands. They died and won. Their deeds are simple, “but memorable, like the smell of gasoline and the desert.” In this book you will find, in addition to “The Thirteenth Caravan,” other stories. “They entered it,” says the author, “just as oncoming roads and paths that crossed the route of our path enter».