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Synopsis-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 fact, 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, qu ...more
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, qu ...more
In A Sunburned Country is Bill Bryson's eighth book and he adds more fans with every one. I definitely enjoyed this cleverly written travelogue about Australia, punctuated with lots of local and obscure Australian history. Bryson is a keen observer of the flora and fauna of Australia, mentioning that the country has "more things that will kill you than anywhere else." There are more species of poisonous snakes (8 of the top 10 world’s most toxic), huge poisonous and aggressive spiders, the world
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