In 2022, a joint book by Nikolai Drozdov “Flight of the Boomerang” and Vladimir Balashov “Australia. Forty years later" has been published. Now Vladimir Balashov is preparing a new series of stories that were born after his trip to the places described in Jules Verne's novel "Captain Grant's Children", where the characters decide to cross Australia along the 37th parallel. Today we publish several stories from this series.