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Title: Down Under by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0-7540-2381-8 Publisher: Chivers Press Ltd Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Unimpressed
Comment: Picked up this book after having heard it was funny, informative, and easy to read. Within the first few pages i became disillusioned! It's hard not to be really, when Mr Bryson refers to spiders as insects, and in his initial segment to point out "some facts", states that Australia is a single island continent. I'd be curious as to which continent New Zealand belongs to then? Maybe Australasia ceased to be in the day he lost crossing the date line? Having spent over a quater of a year in Oz some of his comments managed to make me chuckle, especially regarding Red Back Spiders, but on the whole i was disappointed. At the price, i'm not inspired to buy another of his titles.
Rating: 5
Summary: My God This is a Good Book
Comment: I first found this book at the Melbourne airport where there were piles of these books with bright yellow covers flying off the shelves to eager buyers.
I was in a hurry at the time and on this trip did not see much of Australia. In any case this is a wonderful book and made up for a lack of travel time. It is really excellent. Gives a picture of day to day life around the wilds of Australia. It wants to make you follow in his steps and re-trace his travels, pub by pub or through each isolated chinese restaurant in the outback.
Jack in Toronto
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: Bryson has done it again! I lived in Australia for quite a few years and reading this book brought back a rush of memories. His wit is insightful, and internationally "spot on." He doesn't really have a go at the Australians, as much as say, guitely pointing out unique quirks the Auzzies have developed for themselves down under.
I read this book on a plane ride back from Australia a few years ago, and caught myself laughing out load more than once.
Great book, Bill.
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Title: In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0767903862 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 15 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Bill Bryson's African Diary by BILL BRYSON ISBN: 0767915062 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson ISBN: 0060920084 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 12 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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