As Australia is set to welcome the Olympic games in September 2000, aerial photographer Klaus Francke invites us to explore this vast and fascinating continent. With its arid deserts, immense wilderness areas, and lush tropical regions, Australia possesses an amazing diversity of landscapes, which can only be properly viewed from the air. The photographs here reveal an immense and unexpected wealth of color-bright azure blues, deep greens, and terracotta reds-of such richness and intensity that it is hard to conceive of them as real elements in the natural world. This book is truly a wonderful revelation of the complexity and beauty of the Australian landscape.