Tegenvoeters
by:
Bill Bryson (author)
Tinke Davids (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789045012216 (9045012219)
Publish date: April 2006
Publisher: Atlas
Pages no: 382
Edition language: Dutch
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...
Three (reluctant) stars.
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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