Theroux rode the railways, Raban sailed the Mississippi, Michael Bywater is flying around Australia in a small, 1940s Tiger Moth biplane. With images of eternal sunshine and white beaches, of desert, swamp and Crocodile Dundee, of Neighbours and endless suburbs, Australia is as misunderstood by the rest of the world as it is misrepresented by soap operas and slick holiday advertising. Hilarious, outrageous and a caustic as ever. Michael Bywater's aerial odyssey will be a journey into the real Australia - exposing, ecploding and sometimes triumphantly confirming the myths and the cliches that surround the land downunder. Michael Bywater's Bargepole column in Punch achieved a miraculous level os splenetic, misanthropic, vitrolic, carbolic, furious and hysterically funny prose, with his devotees including Miles Kington, Douglas Adams, Stephen Fry, Richard Ingrams, Cynthia Heimel and many other comic, luminaries.