| Description |
426 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle, but with a slightly British bent - a sort of Baywatch with cricket...' Of course, what greeted Bill Bryson was something rather different. Australia is a country that exists on a vast scale. It is the world's sixth largest country and its largest island. It is the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still it teems with life - a large proportion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else |
| Notes |
Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2000 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Originally published London : Doubleday, 2000 |
| Subject |
Bryson, Bill.
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Bryson, Bill -- Travel -- Australia.
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Bryson, Bill, 1951- -- Travel -- Australia.
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English fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Humor.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001253
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Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
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Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476
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Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579
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Australia -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002863
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| Genre/Form |
Humor.
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| ISBN |
9780552997034 (paperback) |
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