作者简介 AboutBill Bryson

Bill Bryson is the bestselling author ofThe Lost Continent,Neither Here Nor There,Notes from a Small Island,A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Big Country. He and his family live in America.

比尔·布莱森现与家人住在美国，著有《失落的大地》《无处归属》《“小不列颠”札记》《林中漫步》《大国札记》等多部畅销书籍。

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Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it. The people are cheerful, their cities are clean, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines.

内容简介 Book Description

After tales from the USA and Britain, Bill Bryson turns his roving eye to Australia, the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents. It has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way that anywhere else. Yet when Bill Bryson travelled to Australia he promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, the cities safe and clean, the food is excellent, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. He tries to find out why Aussies are so cool, digging up a past that reveals convicts, explorers, gold diggers and outlaws.