Like many of the early explorers and settlers who pushed their way into Australia’s centre marvelling alternately at the grandeur and then the utter desolation, Ted Egan is captivated by the Centre. This journey through Central Australia begins by looking at the country from the early European adventurer's viewpoint and compares their attitude and capacity to exist with the desert aborigines. We will see Lake Eyre full with water and an abundance of birdlife something that has happened only a couple of times last century. Ted’s journey takes us over the brilliant red McDonnell Ranges in a hot air balloon and then through the picturesque gorges that cut through the mountains. At Uluru, he encounters a thunder storm. He then flys over Katajuta (The Olgas) and circles nearby Mt. Connor, which he calls the forgotten mountain and ends up viewing what every tourist comes to see, a brilliantly colourful sunset at Uluru.