Down Under

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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.

出版者:Black Swan
作者:[美] 比尔·布莱森
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页数:432
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出版时间:2001-08-06
价格:GBP 8.99
装帧:Mass Market Paperback
isbn号码:9780552997034
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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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Have been deeply immersed in Bryson's world for quite a few years. I just love the writing style of this old bloke - humorous, witty, while immensely informative. This morning I've just finished listening his audio book "Down Under" - for the whopping 4th ...  

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还行是说译文还行。不针对原著。 总算是出中文版了。现在买中文版的书总让人战战兢兢,不靠谱的译者太多了,寒心。这个还凑合。其实,翻的再烂,老布的书也是会全收的。为什么不推有声版呢? 还行是说译文还行。不针对原著。 总算是出中文版了。现在买中文版的书总让人战战兢...  

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这是我读的第一本旅游随笔类型的书,超长。400页。。每一页都很喜欢。。写得好,翻译得也好。。我对旅游和地理、历史都不太感兴趣,而这个作家写的正是我的菜。。故事、传说、关注风景以外的人的故事,这个国家被发现的故事。。充满传奇性。。还有探险。。还有笑话。。还有一点...  

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可爱的美国佬,典型的美式幽默,可是又透着些许悲天悯怀的普世价值观。在描写人的时候往往能一两句话就勾勒出AUSSIE。对于土著的描写和感受,深有同感

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the very very frist i brought with me ..to the downunder !

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informative. witty. 射手座唠叨起来还真是。。推荐给正在以及想去的人

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the very very frist i brought with me ..to the downunder !

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