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Down Under

By (author): Bill Bryson
Published by: Black Swan
Publication date: 06/Aug/2001
Format: Paperback - 400 pages
Product dimensions (mm): 198 x 126
ISBN-10: 055299703X
ISBN-13: 9780552997034
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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.

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