In a Sunburned CountryCompared to his Australian excursions, Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian Trail. Nonetheless, Bryson has on serveral occasions embarked on seemingly endless flights bound for a land where Little Debbies are scarce but insects are abundant (up to 220,000 species of them), not to mention the crodiles. Taking readers on a rollicking ride far beyond packaged-tour routes, IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY introduces a country where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister who was lost at sea while swimming at a Victoria beach to Japanese cult members who managed to set off an atomic bomb unnoticed on their 500,000-acre property. Leaving no Vegemite unsavored, readers will accompany Bryson as he dodges jellyfish while learning to surf at Bondi Beach, discovers a fish that can climb trees, dehydrates in deserts where the temperatures leap to 140 degrees, and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House. Published just in time for the Olympics, IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY provides a singularly intriguing, wonderfully wacky take on a glorious, adventure-filled locale. |
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... kilometers away down a straight and empty highway , thus completing a large and irregu- lar circle . We had an afternoon in Broken Hill and spent it seeing the sights . We drove out to Silverton , once a rowdy mining town , now ...
... kilometers away down a straight and empty highway , thus completing a large and irregu- lar circle . We had an afternoon in Broken Hill and spent it seeing the sights . We drove out to Silverton , once a rowdy mining town , now ...
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... kilometers up the coast . " " Twenty kilometers ? " I sputtered . " I asked for a hotel in Cairns . ” He scratched his chin thoughtfully . “ Well , it's sure not in Cairns . " " But the road is open ? ” " So far . " " You mean it might ...
... kilometers up the coast . " " Twenty kilometers ? " I sputtered . " I asked for a hotel in Cairns . ” He scratched his chin thoughtfully . “ Well , it's sure not in Cairns . " " But the road is open ? ” " So far . " " You mean it might ...
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... kilometers by forty , and if there are 8 million square kilometers in Aus- tralia , then how much of the country has been properly surveyed ? " He looked at me as if I had asked a very basic question . “ Oh , hardly any . " I found this ...
... kilometers by forty , and if there are 8 million square kilometers in Aus- tralia , then how much of the country has been properly surveyed ? " He looked at me as if I had asked a very basic question . “ Oh , hardly any . " I found this ...
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