Down Under by Bill Bryson

Down Under by Bill Bryson

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780552997034
Author: Bill Bryson
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Black Swan
Place: London
Year: 2001
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432 pages

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some minor marks on right foredge. Previous owner stamped inside page.

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. This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes go for you. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback.

Ignoring such dangers - 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. (publisher blurb)

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