This is Australia

The next installment in the series of illustrated guides for children by Czech emigrant, painter, editor of Radio Free Europe, and globetrotter Miroslav Šašek takes us to the land of the antipodes, to the world's smallest continent, Australia. Šašek was enchanted by the Australian landscape. He guides readers through cities—Sydney with its famous bridge and ultra-modern Opera House, bustling modern Melbourne, colonial Adelaide, and subtropical Brisbane—but also through the diverse Australian wildness, from the tropics across the coasts to the deserts. He introduces us to Australia's amusing and remarkable fauna. Šašek sees Australia as a young and confident continent, whose inhabitants "are independent, self-reliant, balanced, and hospitable, convinced that Australia is a unique place where one has a greater opportunity to be the architect of one's own destiny than anywhere else in the world."