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　　Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel

literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the

Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A

Walk in the Woods. In A Sunburned Country is his report

on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the

country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the

friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most

peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The result

is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by

a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging

curiousity.

Despite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill

you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks,

crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores

the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond

that beaten tourist path. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who

are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these

beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and

constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book. Australia

is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson

its perfect guide.

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　　Bill Bryson's many books include, most recently, I'm a

Stranger Here Myself, as well as A Walk in the Woods,

Lost Continent, Notes from a Small Island, and

Mother Tongue. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951, he lived

in England for almost two decades. He now lives in Hanover, New

Hampshire, with his wife and their four children.

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I drove in the gloomy frame of mind that overtakes me at the end of every big trip. In another day or two I would be back in New Hampshire and all these experiences would march off as in a Disney film to the dusty attic of my brain and try to find space for themselves amid all the ridiculous accumulated clutter of half a century's disordered living.

...

It seemed a particularly melancholy notion to me that life would go on in Australia and I would hear almost nothing of it....Life would go on and I would hear nothing , because once you leave Australia, Australia ceases to be. What a strange, sad thought that is.

...

I can understand it, of course. Australia is mostly empty and a long way away. Its population is small and its role in the world consequently peripheral. It doesn't have coups...

当知道一切都可能消失在一缕烟里，你绝对会感激这一切。

They chose as leader an Irish police officer named Robert O’Hara Burke, who had never seen real outback, was famous for his ability to get lost even in inhabited areas, and knew nothing of exploration or science.

He would, he announced, continue to reside in Sydney and commute to Canberra as duties required. As you can imagine, this caused an uproar among Canberra’s citizens, presumably because they hadn’t thought of it themselves. What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director – someone whose burning ambition from the age of eleven was to be a funeral home director, whose proudest achievement in adulthood was to be elected president of the Queanbeyan and District Funeral Home Directors’ Association – then halve his personality and halve it again, and you have pretty well got John Howard. When a man as outstandingly colourless as John Howard turns his nose up at a place you know it must be worth a lo...

Then I decided to come up with a new slogan for Canberra. First I wrote: ‘Canberra – There’s Nothing to It!’ and then ‘Canberra – Why Wait for Death?’ Then I thought some more and wrote: ‘Canberra – Gateway to Everywhere Else!’,

Give Australians an issue and they will argue it so passionately and in such detail, from so many angles, with the introduction of so many loosely connected side issues, that it soon becomes impenetrable to the outsider.

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　　So the question is: will Bill Bryson be able to deliver yet

another travel book that educates, entertains and makes the

delighted reader laugh aloud? No worries, mate, because 'Bryson

visits Australia' (or Down Under, to use its proper title) doesn't

disappoint. Our boy Bill declares his love for the Antipodes and

proves it beyond doubt. This is another well-researched serio-comic

treat, featuring Bryson's classic creation - a bemused American

tourist who masks his generosity of spirit and genuine wonder

behind a wisecracking persona (the character known as 'Bill

Bryson'). Bryson's delight in language and wordplay is perhaps his

greatest gift. My favourites from Down Underinclude his collection

of Australian Parliamentary epithets ('you perfumed gigolo/mangy

maggot/stunned mullet') and his encounter with a complete stranger

in the shadow of a giant fibreglass lobster somewhere south of

Melbourne (the punch-line to which is 'man crushed by falling

bullock's bollocks'). Another winner is the vicious parody of Ozzie

radio cricket commentary ('I don't think I've seen offside medium

slow fast pace bowling to match it since Baden-Powell took

Rangachangabanga for a maiden ovary at Bangalore in 1948'). He's

also acute on politics. The plight of the Aborigines in the land

that they settled 45,000 years ago lingers in the mind. He remains

tough on American junk culture, too: 'We Yanks have created a

philosophy of retailing that is totally without aesthetics and

totally irresistible.' Bryson's tales of overindulgence in the

local brew - familiar from previous books - are still surreally

funny but have become a little disturbing. Whether he knows it or

not (and I expect he does), he is slowly revealing intriguing

aspects of his complicated personality to his many readers. There's

an underlying world-weariness here, even an existential angst.

EXCELLENT. I continue to find Bryson fascinating company, warts and

all. Review by KERRY SHALE (Kirkus UK)

书籍介绍

Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door, memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion along the Appalachian Trail resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods . In A Sunburned Country is his report on what he found in an entirely different place: Australia, the country that doubles as a continent, and a place with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. The result is a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiousity.

Despite the fact that Australia harbors more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else, including sharks, crocodiles, snakes, even riptides and deserts, Bill Bryson adores the place, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond that beaten tourist path. Wherever he goes he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging, and these beaming products of land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine fill the pages of this wonderful book. Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.