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  Down Under (Paperback) By (author) Bill Bryson

  

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  Short Description for Down UnderAustralia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it. The people are cheerful, their cities are clean, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines.
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  • Publisher: Black Swan
  • Published: 05 May 2001
  • Format: Paperback 400 pages
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  • Categories: Guidebooks | Travel Writing
  • ISBN 13: 9780552997034 ISBN 10: 055299703X
  • Sales rank: 1,019

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• After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill Bryson travelled to Australia he promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, the cities safe and clean, the food is excellent, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. He tries to find out why Aussies are so cool, digging up a past that reveals convicts, explorers, gold diggers and outlaws.