Down Under
Travels in a Sunburned Country
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4.4 • 106 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life – a large portion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else.
Ignoring such dangers – and yet curiously obsessed by them – Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging: their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn’t get much better than this…
Customer Reviews
Eye opening read
Only bill Bryson could write something so funny and so moving. Loved it.
Very good
Bills humour is dry so he gets australia
Down under, down under
Thanks Bill for the best book I've read in years! I'm an Aussie and loved it all, and laughed myself silly at times .. Like a cut snake! Recommend this to all of us who like to take the Micky out of themselves, and to those who need to let go and see Australia and Auatralians as they really are. Thanks a million Bill