Australia is a land of many faces. There is the Australia of the Aboriginal people, where every landscape is full of meaning. There is the Australia that the last two centuries have seen changed into a mosaic of cities and towns, farms and properties, wilderness wetland, aridland, bushland and managed National Parks and Reserves. There is the Australia whose fascinating life is sometimes not even suspected - the Australia of koala, platypus and kangaroo, amazing birds, remarkable reptiles, and fantastic undersea life.
This is the Australia that Steve Parish has been discovering and recording on film for over thirty years. For this superb volume in his 'Signature Collection', Steve has chosen to portray Sydney, the first city to be settled by Europeans in Australia.
Centred around Sydney Harbour in a breathtakingly beautiful setting, Sydney is vibrant, exciting and somewhat irreverent. It has history, yet is as modern as tomorrow. It is a happening, can-do place where ideas flourish and culture is nourished. It is cosmopolitan and sophisticated, and yet down-to-earth. For some, Sydney epitomises Australia.
