Hi,

I?m a lover of the travel stories of the Czechs Jiri Hanzelka and
Miroslav Zikmund of the late 40ties and early 50ties with their famous
Tatra car. Living in Germany I found all there books related to
Africa, South and Central America and SE Europe/Middle East. Are there
travel diaries of further trips to Asia and Australia? I know there
were some plans but I don?t know if realized and published. So, where
and in which languages can I find something? Or is there definitely
not more than the books I already own?

Thanks for the research!
serendipix

Hallo, serendipix!

Diese tschechische Webseite über die Reisen des Duos Hanzelka/Zikmund
listet eine Reihe von Büchern auf, die sich offenbar
Reiseschilderungen aus Asien und Australien sind, etwa "Cejlon, ráj
bez and?l?" (1975) oder "Sv?tadíl pod Himálajem" (1969). Der Link
"Cestopisy" in der Navigationsleiste links führt zur Liste:
http://haz.iglu.cz/Haz/hlavna.htm

Allerdings konnte ich keinen Hinweis darauf finden, daß diese Werke
jemals ins Deutsche übersetzt wurden; die Kataloge der Deutschen
Bibliothek, in denen eigentlich sämtliche in Deutschland verlegten
Bücher aufgeführt sein sollten, führen sie beispielsweise nicht auf.

Es tut mir leid, daß ich keine erfreulicheren Neuigkeiten habe.
Schöne Grüße,
Scriptor

(Note to the editors: This comment refers to a Czech list of books.)

Hi Serendipix,
From an article by Radio Prague,
(http://www.radio.cz/en/article/37643) we learn that Hanzelka and
Zikmund did make a trip to Asia, Australia and Oceania. They reported
on four specific areas: Indonesia, Irian Jaya, Japan, and the Soviet
Union.

To add to Scriptor's comments, Amazon.de seem to only have accounts
from their trips to the Americas and Africa.

www.alibris.com is a good resource for tracking down hard-to-find books. 
I was unable to find any travel accounts of Australia when looking
there, but did find two further to the ones found by Scriptor, namely,
Kashmir - the Valley of Heaven and Kurdistan: Country of
Insurrections, Legends and Hope (both 1962). Both can be found by
going to the site and searching for Hanzelka under author. Both are
english language versions stocked by U.S. vendors.

Diese Antwort übersetze Ich gerne, wenn sie es möchten.