num_pages: 456
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 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: Audiobook, History, Adventure, Memoir, Biography, Australia, Travelogue, Travel, Humor, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 109141
places: Outback, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney, New South Wales, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Puddly Award
category: Travel Writing, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Thurber Prize
category: American Humor
publisher: Chivers Press