Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country

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. 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.|Bill Bryson's bestselling Australian travelogue, now in paperback. Bryson is a household name, following a string of bestsellers and a huge, loyal readership, combined with what has proved to be a very popular subject. 300,000 copies sold in Doubleday hardcover.