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Down under : travels in a sunburned country Bill Bryson.

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ISBN 9781409095637 (Overdrive: electronic bk.)
Author Bryson, Bill author.
Title Down under : travels in a sunburned country [electronic resource] / Bill Bryson.
Publisher/Date London : 2010.
Pagination etc. 1 online resource.
Contents note Downloadable eBook
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Note 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.
Subject - Name Bryson, Bill -- Travel -- Australia
Subject Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Australia -- Description and travel
Australia -- Civilization
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