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In a Sunburned Country

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Category: Travel: Australia & Oceania | Humor | Biography & Memoir

Category: Travel: Australia & Oceania | Humor | Biography & Memoir

Category: Travel: Australia & Oceania | Humor | Biography & Memoir | Audiobooks

Category: Travel: Australia & Oceania | Humor | Biography & Memoir | Audiobooks

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Paperback $16.99

May 15, 2001 | 352 Pages

Ebook $11.99

Sep 01, 2000 | 320 Pages

Audiobook Download $19.95

Jul 05, 2000 | 720 Minutes

CD $49.95

Jun 06, 2000 | 720 Minutes

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    About In a Sunburned Country

    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.

    About In a Sunburned Country

    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.

    About In a Sunburned Country

    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.

    About In a Sunburned Country

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    Just in time for the 2000 Olympics-the bestselling quthor of A Walk in the Woods takes listeners on a truly outrageous tour Down Under.

    Compared to his Australian excursions, Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian Trail.  Nonetheless, Bryson has on several 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 crocodiles.

    Taking listeners on a rollicking ride far beyond packaged-tour routes, IN A SUNBURNED COUNTRY introduces a place where interesting things happen all the time.  Leaving no Vegemite unsavored, listeners 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 temperatures leap to 140 degrees F, and tells the true story of the rejected Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House.

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    See all books by Bill Bryson

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    About Bill Bryson

    Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods (a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte released in 2015), Notes from a Small Island, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize). He lives… More about Bill Bryson

    About Bill Bryson

    Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods (a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte released in 2015), Notes from a Small Island, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize). He lives… More about Bill Bryson

    About Bill Bryson

    Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods (a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte released in 2015), Notes from a Small Island, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize). He lives… More about Bill Bryson

    About Bill Bryson

    Bill Bryson’s bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods (a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte released in 2015), Notes from a Small Island, and A Short History of Nearly Everything (which earned him the 2004 Aventis Prize). He lives… More about Bill Bryson

    Product Details

    Paperback | $16.99
    Published by Broadway Books
    May 15, 2001 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780767903868

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Broadway Books
    Sep 01, 2000 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780767907668

    Audiobook Download | $19.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jul 05, 2000 | 720 Minutes | ISBN 9780553753172

    CD | $49.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jun 06, 2000 | 720 Minutes | ISBN 9780553502596

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    Praise

    “What the indefatigable, keenly observant Bryson did a few years back for the Applachian Trail with A Walk in the Woods… he does now for the generally undiscovered land Down Under.”
    —Chicago Tribune

    “Vastly entertaining… If there is one book with which to get oriented before departure or en route to Australia, this is it.”
    —New York Times

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