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As his many British fans already know, bearded Yankee butterball Bill Bryson specialises in going to countries we think we know well, only to return with travelogues that are surprisingly cynical and yet shockingly affectionate. It's a unique style, possibly best suited to the world's weirder destinations. It's helpful here: Bryson's latest subject is that oddest of continents, Australia.
For a start, there's the oddly nasty fauna and flora. Barely a page of Down Under is without its lovingly detailed list of lethal antipodean critters: sociopathic jellyfish, homicidal crocs, toilet-dwelling death-spiders, murderous shrubs (yes, shrubs). Bryson's absorbing and informative portrait is of a terrain so intractably vast, a land so climatically extreme, it seems expressly designed to daunt and torment humankind.
This very user-unfriendliness throws up another Aussie paradox. If the country is so hostile how come the natives are so laid back, so relaxed? As Bryson shuffles from state to state, he seeks the key to the uniquely cool Australian character and finds it in Australia's tragicomic past, her genetic seeding of convicts, explorers, gold diggers, outlaws. This is a country of lads and mates, of boozy gamblers--nowadays mellowed by sunshine and sporting success.
Down Under is a fine book. So it may not be quite as deliciously malicious as Bryson's The Lost Continent, nor as laugh-out-loud funny as Neither Here Nor There. But so what? A Bill Bryson on cruise control is better than most travel writers on turbodrive. --Sean Thomas --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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It was as if I had privately discovered life on another planet, or a parallel universe where life was at once recognizably similar but entirely different. I can't tell you how exciting it was. Insofar as I had accumulated my expectations of Australia at all in the intervening years, I had thought of it as a kind of alternative southern California, a place of constant sunshine and the cheerful vapidity of a beach lifestyle, but with a slightly British bent - a sort of Baywatch with cricket…' Of course, what greeted Bill Bryson was something rather different. Australia is a country that exists on a vast scale. It is the world's sixth largest country and its largest island. It is the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still it teems with life - a large proportion of it quite deadly. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a very nasty way than anywhere else. This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes go for you. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistable currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. Ignoring such dangers - yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging; their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this.
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评分Sure it's not wrong to dub Australia a conservative, unconfident and racist backwater, but just as Mr Bryson tirelesly (but rightly) states on countless occasions: this is a good country, and it's trying, really hard.
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评分Bill Bryson的又一部杰作，我看过他的另一本游记"THE LOST CONTINENT-Travels in Small Town American",觉得他的语言非常风趣幽默，在作品里不断穿插一些趣闻轶事,夹杂着他风趣幽默的评论，让他的文章栩栩如生，如同身临其境，让你觉得看他的游记是一种享受。 这本书里记录了澳大利亚的一些独特的历史，从最初的殖民者一直到土著居民，荒芜的沙漠，独特的恶劣气候，和澳大利亚人乐观豁达的性格，已经很多的奇特的自然景观，致命的毒蛇，水母，各种其他有毒的植物，动物虫子，鳄鱼，让你在增长知识的同时也获得了乐趣，强烈推荐大家读一下这本书，本书的有声版本用标准美式口音阅读，听他的有声版本更是一种享受。
评分文字诙谐幽默，风趣之极，把一些细小的你心领体会的体验描述的非常到位。比如他埋汰板球说这是一种观众和运动员消耗卡路里一样多的运动，然后又更正说，如果观众比较热血，应该比运动员消耗的卡路里更高。最重要的一点，这本书是那种听起来比看起来更爽的书。讲的这个老头讲的非常好，平时用标准英语，但是模仿澳洲人的口音，精准到位，张口闭口的“mate”也只有我们生活在土澳的村里人才能体会到其中精妙，搞笑之极。
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