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In a Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson

In a Sunburned Country
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Author: Bill Bryson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-15
ISBN: 0767903862
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Broadway

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Book Review: In A Sunburned Country live the oddest history & creatures!
Summary: 5 Stars

I'd not read a Bill Bryson book before so as I began his trek around & across Australia, I found myself chortling & enchanted at this author's mischievous sense of the absurd. This book is packed with historical, geological, botanical, biological & unusual travelogue detail of his adventures Down Under.

He is a keen observer of culture & cupidity. Whether he's relaxing in Alice Springs with a brew, watching the white Saturday world mill before him, into which stumble 20th Century Aborigines. This author puts down his newspaper & ponders on the history of Australia's First People; of the incoming European settlers' morals with regard to these elusive inhabitants who had survived, quite nicely thank you, for thousands of years only to be devastated by the plague of prejudice.

Or whether he's off on a train to Western Australia or enchanted by a lovely clean city or dabbling in the waters of New South Wales. This author dwells upon the peculiarity that Australia is home to more hair-raising critters of the deadly kind than anywhere else around this globe. With all his research, Bill Bryson is still not sure why.

Few details escape this intrepid traveler; he's especially good when illuminating the early sorties into the forbidding interior which, because he crisscrosses it a few times himself, he describes in bright, busy visions & has definitely whetted my appetite for a gander at Down Under.

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