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Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson’s bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent, A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His last critically lauded bestseller was At Home: a Short History of Private Life.

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Title:: Down Under
Written by:: Bill Bryson
Read by:: William Roberts
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 11
Duration:: 12 hours 9 minutes
Published:: February 28 2017
Available Date:: February 28 2017
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489380654
Genres:: Non-fiction; Australia; Lifestyle - Travel
Publisher:: Bolinda/Audible audio

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Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it....

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, extroverted, 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 …