The author also supplies plenty of humor in the form of historical accounts of early explorers and settlers of Australia. The author describes his experiences on the train, the places the train passes through on its way to Perth such as the Blue Mountains and White Cliffs. He is accompanied on this journey by a young English photographer named Trevor Ray Hart. The first part of the book mainly describes the journey taken by Bryson aboard the Indian Pacific from Sydney to Perth. His writings are intertwined with recurring humorous themes. In a style similar to his book A Walk in the Woods, or William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, Bryson's research enabled him to include many stories about Australia's 19th-century explorers and settlers who suffered extreme deprivations, as well as details about its natural resources, culture, and economy.

Summary īill Bryson describes his travels by railway and car throughout Australia, his conversations with people in all walks of life about the history, geography, unusual plants and animals of the country, and his wry impressions of the life, culture and amenities (or lack thereof) in each locality. navy cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 319 pp, ink to top edge. It was also published as part of Walk About, which included Down Under and another of Bryson's books, A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail, in one volume. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with. Down Under by Bryson, Bill Seller San Francisco Book Company Published 2000 Condition Very good Edition Cloth/dust jacket Octavo Item Price 16.20. In the United States and Canada it was published titled In a Sunburned Country, a title taken from the famous Australian poem, ' My Country'. Down Under is the British title of a 2000 travelogue book about Australia written by best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson.

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