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Australia's Deadly Wonders Explored

Travel Writing

Down Under : Travels in a Sunburned Country

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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.


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About the book

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, extrovert, 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…

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Published by Transworld Publishers Ltd

Audiobook ISBN: 9781784161835 5 Nov 2015 128 x 198 x 28 (mm) 298g Narrated by William Roberts 12 hrs and 7 mins