Bill Bryson's travels in a sunburned country- Australia will never look the same again.
Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling
books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small
Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of
the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island
was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work
of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the
Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling
non-fiction book of its decade in the UK. His new book The Body- A
Guide for Occupants is an extraordinary exploration of the human
body which will have you marvelling at the form you occupy.
Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an
Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.
Bryson makes you laugh out loud...Down Under is filled with quirky
stories',
*Sunday Express*
Bryson makes you laugh out loud...Down Under is filled with quirky
stories',
*Sunday Express*
The thing that Bryson most loves about Australia - its
"effortlessly dry, direct way of viewing the world" - is, in fact,
his own. They're a perfect fit
*The New York Times Book Review*
Bryson is the perfect travelling companion... when it comes to
travel's peculiars the man still has no peers
*The Times*
Bill Bryson is a very talented writer and an enormously funny and
perceptive one. He is an artist who needs a big canvas. Australia
has provided this. He's painted a masterpiece in travel
literature
*Globe & Mail Toronto*
He arrives at his destination, finds a hotel, checks in, meanders
around the neighbourhood, visits any museums or public monuments he
happens to encounter, has a couple of drinks, eavesdrops on a
conversation or two, then goes to bed. A year later, people on
three continents are hospitalised as a result of ruptures caused by
laughing so hard at his account of the experience
*The Age, Melbourne*
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