Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country (Bryson Book 6)

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Also, his insatiable thirst for detail finds him, as ever, ferreting out the who, the why and the where to enhance the reader's knowledge of the book's subject matter. So many of the oldest objects ever found on earth-- the most ancient rocks and fossils, the earliest animal tracks and riverbeds, the first faint signs of life itself--have come from Australia. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. He arrives at his destination, finds a hotel, meanders around the neighbourhood, has a couple of drinks, eavesdrops on a conversation or two, then goes to bed.From the Northeast you will travel across the far north and discover the dangers and weather that can stop you in your tracks. Terence Blacker, in the Sunday Times, was more temperate, but still dismissed the book as a hack job: "For someone about to visit Australia, Down Under presents a perfect, accessible introduction to the country, its history and its people. I felt, when reading this book that here we have an author who's churning out one book after another, thinking he's found a winning formula when really it all gets a bit same-o. His new number one Sunday Times bestseller is The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island. Unsurprisingly I haven’t visited many of the wonderful places in Bills book but have a hunger to do so next time I go and will plan accordingly.

His best-known works include Notes from a Small Island, Neither Here Nor There and A Short History of Nearly Everything. You almost don't feel like you don't need to go and see the Sydney Opera House or journey through the Outback, because Bryson has told you all you need to know.Because he did not spend long in Australia, occasionally the material in Down Under is so thin that even Bryson can't raise a good joke, and is obliged to wheel out Jurassic specimens ("a place where men were men and sheep were nervous").