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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 tact, 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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Down Under, Bill Bryson
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- Released
- 2001
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- Title
- Down Under
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Bill Bryson
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Released
- 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 055299703X
- ISBN13
- 9780552997034
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Biographies, Travel, Humor, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Travelogues, Australia, Popular Culture
- First published
- 2000
- Original title
- Down Under
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- 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 tact, 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...