Title: In a Sunburned Country
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Broadway Books
Year: 200/2001
335 pages
Bryson's enjoyable peregrinations in Australia, which were not only enjoyable to read while there, but also gave me something to chat about with the Australians with whom I shared a table while on tour in the South Pacific. It's true--mention funnel webs or croc attacks and you won't have to say another word for the whole meal as Aussies regale you with anecdotes about their poisonous and/or toothy creatures for hours. Bryson, like Twain and Theroux, brings in a lot of history and natural history, which I appreciate in a travelogue.
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