Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods . In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friend...
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods . In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity.
Despite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.
I drove in the gloomy frame of mind that overtakes me at the end of every big trip. In another day or two I would be back in New Hampshire and all these experiences would march off as in a Disney film to the dusty attic of my brain and try to find space for themselves amid all the ridiculous accumulated clutter of half a century's disordered living.
...
It seemed a particularly melancholy notion to me that life would go on in Australia and I would hear almost nothing of it....Life would go on and I would hear nothing , because once you leave Australia, Australia ceases to be. What a strange, sad thought that is.
...
I can understand it, of course. Australia is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have coups... (查看原文)
One would think “how hard can it be to write a travel book”? As a travel book writer, you go to a fascinating place, do a bit sightseeing and record what you see. You then go back to your hotel room and jump on Google.com to search for anything about this...
(展开)
![[美] 比尔·布莱森](https://img9.doubanio.com/img/author/medium/public/1511937764.95.jpg)
比尔·布莱森 作者
Nick J.
Corgi Audio2000版
东食西宿
Doubleday2000版
繁缕Stellaria
江苏凤凰文艺出版社2019版
燕子xiao
江苏凤凰文艺出版社2019版
0 有用 Blavatsky 2009-10-11 17:44:04
爷是史上最成功的澳洲自助游托
0 有用 nikkosoleil 2014-08-07 20:22:27
【funny tales of a dangerous yet fascinating country :D】自由行的话走之前读一读挺不错的，补补背景知识，没导游啊~~~总算在结束袋鼠国之行后的第五个月把结尾一点零星读完了orz书展前清！存！货！
0 有用 Jamie 2007-11-23 10:51:48
比neither here nor there还是差了点。 为什么豆瓣没有半颗星！
0 有用 丸子(^.^)v 2019-05-17 12:47:10
没想到说的是澳大利亚 听说那边房市崩了不知道是真是假 = = 但看到标题 我第一个想到美国 即便在硅谷 我也觉得特别村 ……
0 有用 文文文 2013-05-20 20:31:16
好玩~忍不住笑出来多次