Down Under

By - Bryson, Bill

Floor - Floor 4

Published - Doubleday, London, 2000

ISBN 10 - 055299703X

ISBN 13 - 9780552997034

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Australia

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 994.0660 BRY

Physical Description - 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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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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