Hanzelka and Zikmund

Jiří Hanzelka (left) and Miroslav Zikmund in 1956

Jiří Hanzelka (24 December 1920 – 15 February 2003) and Miroslav Zikmund (14 February 1919 – 1 December 2021), known collectively as Hanzelka and Zikmund, were a duo of Czech adventurers known for their travels in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania in the 1940s and 1950s, and for the books, articles, and films they created about their journeys.[1]

  1. ^ Roberts, Andrew Lawrence (2005), From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Švejk: A Dictionary of Czech Popular Culture, Budapest: Central European University Press, p. 53, ISBN 9789637326264