Down under / Bill Bryson.
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TextPublisher: London : Black Swan, 2001Copyright date: ©2000Edition: New editionDescription: 426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type: still image | cartographic image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780552997034 (paperback)Subject(s): Bryson, Bill | Bryson, Bill -- Travel -- Australia | Bryson, Bill | Bryson, Bill, 1951- -- Travel -- Australia | Bryson, Bill | Bryson, Bill, 1951- -- Journeys -- Australia | Bryson, Bill -- Travel -- Australia | 1900 - 1999 | English fiction | Bryson -- Bill -- Journeys -- Australia | Civilization | Manners and customs | Travel | Australia -- Humor | Australia -- Social life and customs | Australia | Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century | Australia -- Description and travel | Australia -- CivilizationDDC classification: 919.4 LOC classification: DU105.2 | .B83 2001Other classification: BO 6670 Summary: 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.
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Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2000.
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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.
Originally published London : Doubleday, 2000.
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