Mielche, a Dane, travelled 17,000 miles across the face of Australia in order to write this book. He saw the big cities, noted the architecture, the culture and characteristics of human nature. He visited the remote outback communities, flew with the Flying Doctor and participated in a 'School Of The Air' broadcast. In all, he saw a brash, go-ahead nation that paid rich rewards to those who were prepared to work for them and a people that had an easy tolerance of race, colour and religion. Written in 1961, it give a window on the world of the Australia that was. With colour photographs.