Down Under : Travels in a Sunburned Country

Author: Bryson, Bill

Australia

Published on 5 November 2015 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Black Swan) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Bryson' series.

Paperback | 432 pages
128 x 198 x 28 | 302g

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, 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…