In a sunburned country
By: Bill Bryson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Bryson, Bill -- Travel -- Australia; Australia -- Description and travel
Description: "Here is a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister lost - yes, lost - while swimming at sea to Japanese cult members who may have set off an atomic bomb (sic) entirely unnoticed on their 500,000-acre property in the great western desert.".

"Wherever he goes (and Bryson goes just about everywhere) he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging - the beaming products of a land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine. On occasion the Aborigines, a remote and mysterious race with a tragic history, make a haunting appearance in this book. But by and large Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-307).