Down Under

The thing that Bryson most loves about Australia – Its effortlessly dry, direct way of viewing the world is, in fact, his own.

They’re a perfect fit New York Times Book Review

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated,

infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life – a large portion of it quite deadly In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in a

very nasty way than anywhere else.

Ignoring such dangers – and 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 unfallingly 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..

Bryson is the perfect cravelling companion … When i comes to travel’s peculiars the man still has no peers

The Times

He arrives at his destination, finds a hotel, meanders around the neighbourhood, has a couple of drinks, cavesdrops on a conversation or two, then goes to bed. A year later, people on three continents are hospitalised as a result of ruptures caused by laughing so hard at his account of the experience

The Age, Melbourne