Down Under
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Travels in a Sunburned Country.
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#6 in the Series: Bryson
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…
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Imprint: Transworld Digital
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Published: 02/03/2010
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ISBN: 9781409095637
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Length: 432 Pages
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"Bryson makes you laugh out loud...Down Under is filled with quirky stories',"
Sunday Express
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"The thing that Bryson most loves about Australia - its "effortlessly dry, direct way of viewing the world" - is, in fact, his own. They're a perfect fit"
The New York Times Book Review
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"Bryson is the perfect travelling companion... when it comes to travel's peculiars the man still has no peers"
The Times
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"Bill Bryson is a very talented writer and an enormously funny and perceptive one. He is an artist who needs a big canvas. Australia has provided this. He's painted a masterpiece in travel literature"
Globe & Mail Toronto
