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Down Under

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[美] 比尔·布莱森
Black Swan
2001-08-06
432
GBP 8.99
Mass Market Paperback
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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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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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。

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I love Bill Bryson!

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有趣,搞笑。

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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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有趣,搞笑。

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开始看Bill Bryson是因为听说他很幽默,在最初我也觉得是这样的,各种小笑话层出不穷,倒也可以看个热闹。 这几天看完了几本他的书,看多了就会发现他的幽默种类有点单一:基本上全是讽刺,有时候言过其实,而且总把自己摆在受害者的位置,看起来就是个whiny baby。而且有时候...  

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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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我没办法评论内容,因为字体太丑了,不知道什么字体,封面也丑,整本书拿在手里丑的没法看,版式也丑,于是我心情大坏,根本看不下去了。骚瑞,看不下去,丑死了。 责任编辑和出版社,你们太作孽了,我都不愿意知道你们是谁,请退出做书的行业吧,又不赚钱!!  

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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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