The collection contains Our Beautiful Homeland, Around the Lobor and about twenty other travelogues, with the addition of notes, interpreters and dictionaries for each individual travelogue.
"Travel writing, a type in which fantasy prevails, but the gift of observation..." - wrote Matoš in 1896 in an obituary published in Kranjčević's "Nada".
Krleža's second travel collection, in which essays on Russian topics are joined by the text About Lenin, and a group of travel texts which, along with Letter from Koprivnica and Letimo nad Pannonia, also includes the Three Viennese Letters.
The book describes man's discoveries of parts of planet Earth that were accidental or planned. The period from 50,000 years ago to today's efforts in space exploration is described.