description: It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most 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, extroverted, 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...
language: English
title: Down Under
titlecomplete: Down Under
genres: Travelogue, Biography, Adventure, Australia, Memoir, Nonfiction, Humor, Travel, History, Audiobook
ratings_count: 109168
places: Outback, Alice Springs, Australia, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Sydney, New South Wales
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Puddly Award
category: Travel Writing, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Thurber Prize
category: American Humor
publisher: Chivers Press