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William Roberts

William Roberts is an American actor whose credits include stage, television, radio, film and voice work. He spent five years as actor/director with the Oregon Shakespearean Festival before moving to Britain and becoming a member of the British Actors’ Equity Association. A broadly experienced actor and voice artiste, Roberts is a frequent reader of American works on BBC Radio and for various audio publishers. He has also appeared on film and TV including Behind Closed Doors, Cold Mountain and Inspector Morse.

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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 …