Down Under by Bill Bryson

Down Under by Bill Bryson

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.

"Bryson makes you laugh out loud..Down Under is filled with quirky stories'," Sunday Express "Bryson makes you laugh out loud...Down Under is filled with quirky stories'," Sunday Express "The thing that Bryson most loves about Australia - its "effortlessly dry, direct way of viewing the world" - is, in fact, his own. They're a perfect fit" The New York Times Book Review "Bryson is the perfect travelling companion... when it comes to travel's peculiars the man still has no peers" The Times "Bill Bryson is a very talented writer and an enormously funny and perceptive one. He is an artist who needs a big canvas. Australia has provided this. He's painted a masterpiece in travel literature" Globe & Mail Toronto

Bill Bryson is much loved for his bestselling travel books, from The Lost Continent to Down Under, but Notes from a Small Island has earned a particularly special place in the nation's heart (a national poll for World Book Day in 2003 voted it the book that best represents Britain). His acclaimed A Short History of Nearly Everything won the Aventis Prize for Science Books and the Descartes Science Communication Prize. He has now returned to live in the UK with his wife and family. www.billbryson.co.uk

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ISBN 13	9780552997034
ISBN 10	055299703X
Title	Down Under
Author	Bill Bryson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published	2001-08-06
Number of pages	432
Prizes	Winner of WH Smith Book Awards (Travel Writing) 2001, Winner of WH Smith Book Awards: Travel 2001
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