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Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book.Īustralia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity.ĭespite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Even with those jellyfish.Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out.

The dangerous riptides of the sea and the sun-baked wastes of the outback both lie in wait for the unwary.Īustralia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else: sharks, crocodiles, the planet's ten most deadly poisonous snakes, fluffy yet toxic caterpillars, sea shells that actually attack you, and the unbelievable box jellyfish (don't ask). And despite the fact that it is the most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all inhabited continents, it teems with life. Its aboriginal people, a remote and mysterious race with a tragic history, have made it their home for millennia. It's a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister lost - yes, lost - while swimming at sea, to Japanese cult members who may (entirely unnoticed) have set off an atomic bomb on their 500,000 acre property in the great western desert.Īustralia is the only island that is also a continent, and the only continent that is also a country.

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Deliciously funny, fact-filled and adventurous, In a Sunburned Country takes us on a grand tour of Australia. This item: In a Sunburned Country, Book Cover May Vary.