The unique Flinders landscape (north of Adelaide but geographically in southern Australia and the country's "desert heart") increasingly has captured the imagination of artists. Its eroded landscape is one of the oldest geologically exposed surfaces on earth. Artist Jeffrey Smart imagines that its cypress forests reflect how the continent looked thousands of years ago. Sally and Jeffrey Smart, Horace Trenerry, Nikolaus Lang, Antony Hamilton, Barrie Goddard. Nicholas Folland, and the Australian icon, Hans Heysen are represented in this compelling book.