Down under : travels in a sunburned country
Bryson, Bill2015
Book
It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle, but with a slightly British bent - a sort of Baywatch with cricket...' Of course, what greeted Bill Bryson was something rather different. Australia is a country that exists on a vast scale. It is the world's sixth largest country and its largest island. It is the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still it teems with life - a large proportion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else.
Main title:
Down under : travels in a sunburned country / Bill Bryson.
Author:
Bryson, Bill, author
Imprint:
London : Black Swan, 2015.©2000
Collation:
426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2000.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
978178416183517841618379781784161835 (paperback)
Dewey class:
919.4
Language:
English
Related title:
Down Under [ebook] : Travels in a Sunburned Country
Subject:
BRN:
489374
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