This Is New York

I come to a place like New York, for example, that I have never visited before in my life. I begin by going to see the things I've heard about or read about-- the monuments, the landmarks and particular places of interest. One thing leads to another until the book is completed. All I really do is run from my hotel to someplace and then back to the hotel! - Miroslav Sasek in Books are by people. The This is series wouldn't have been complete without New York. The book is the first of 3 on American cities (followed by This is San Francisco and This is Washington, D.C.) It was also the first of 4 titles (with This is Venice, This is Israel and This is Ireland) to be made into a film.

Miroslav Sasek was one of the most respected illustrators of the 1960s and 1970s.