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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看过的几本BB书里最最喜欢的一本,不知道是不是因为本身就很喜欢澳洲的缘故(最不喜欢小不列颠游记难道是因为本身对英国没什么感情?)。除了澳洲及其人民本身很好玩(所以有料,“好写”);这本感觉有点像BB为写万物简史作的准备—— 很多地理/地质方面的科普/故事。 写道他...  

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One would think “how hard can it be to write a travel book”? As a travel book writer, you go to a fascinating place, do a bit sightseeing and record what you see. You then go back to your hotel room and jump on Google.com to search for anything about this...  

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看过的几本BB书里最最喜欢的一本,不知道是不是因为本身就很喜欢澳洲的缘故(最不喜欢小不列颠游记难道是因为本身对英国没什么感情?)。除了澳洲及其人民本身很好玩(所以有料,“好写”);这本感觉有点像BB为写万物简史作的准备—— 很多地理/地质方面的科普/故事。 写道他...  

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在图书馆中闲来无事,本着放松身心的想法,随意的从书架中抽出了这一本书,结果歪打正着,好悬没把自己笑岔气。比尔布莱森 实在是是一位优秀的作家,看着轻松幽默却又勾起人想马上放下书,,背着行囊远走四方的冲动。这本书应该适合茶余饭后或者旅行途中轻松休闲的读物,要是在...

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this book can serve as a guidance. you can even try to follow the author's route within Australia, and enjoy the immeasurable heaps of fun when you see things mentioned in the book, but diffently.  

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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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not a fan

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有趣,搞笑。

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I love Bill Bryson!

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