In a Sunburned Country
After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has...
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After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill Bryson travelled to Australia he promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, the cities safe and clean, the food is excellent, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. He tries to find out why Aussies are so cool, digging up a past that reveals convicts, explorers, gold diggers and outlaws.
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Format: library binding
ISBN:
9781606864593 (1606864599)
Publish date: 2010-01-01
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Pages no: 335
Edition language: English
Following closely on the heels of my recent reading of [b:A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail|9791|A Walk in the Woods Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail|Bill Bryson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388189974s/9791.jpg|613469], this Aussie travelogue b...
What Bill Bryson taught me about Australia: everything wants to kill you, whether or not it is animate, let alone conscious.Everything. And all of the critters are weird, many adorably so. We’re big on quakkas at my house. And Bryson is at his funniest describing a deep and embarrassing sleep he fel...
An excellent overview of an often overlooked country, I can't recommend this book enough to anyone interested in an informative, but funny, look at a country unlike any other. Bryson is obviously besotted with Australia, but he doesn't pull any punches about what's wrong with it either. Lightly i...
This is my first Bill Bryson book, and I'm sure it won't be my last. For a travel book, this has it all; a quirky sense of humor, deep descriptions, an astonishing sense of place, history, interesting factoids, relevance, perspective -- and Bryson's writing style, which falls somewhere between Charl...
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