Description

Each time Bill Bryson walks out the doorway, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion across the Appalachian Trail led to the sublime national bestseller A Walk-In the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found within an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the greatest, driest weather, and the absolute most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the earth. The end result is just a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance with 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 elsewhere, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the area, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist route.