In a Sunburned Country
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In Australia, apparently,
A-bombs go off unnoticed, prime ministers disappear into the surf, and cheery citizens coexist with the world's deadliest creatures: toxic caterpillars, aggressive seashells, crocodiles, sharks, snakes and the dreaded box jellyfish. Bryson discovers this and much more in his trek across sunbaked deserts and up endless coastlines, crisscrossing the "under-discovered" Down Under in search of the odd, the little known, the one-of-a-kind and the just plain weird.
About this Author
BILL BRYSON's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which won the Aventis Prize in Britain and the Descartes Prize, the European Union's highest literary award). He was chancellor of Durham University, England's third oldest university, from 2005 to 2011, and is an honorary fellow of Britain's Royal Society.
Reviews
"Bill Bryson is . . . an artist who needs a big canvas. Australia has provided this. He's painted a masterpiece in travel literature."
--The Globe and Mail
"What the indefatigable, keenly observant Bryson did a few years back for the Applachian Trail with A Walk in the Woods . . . he does now for the generally undiscovered land Down Under."
--Chicago Tribune
"Vastly entertaining. . . . If there is one book with which to get oriented before departure or en route to Australia, this is it."
--The New York Times
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