Down Under
by Bill Bryson | Unknown | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 055299703X Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 055299703X Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
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.
Journal Entry 2 by imeretoo at Telford Central Railway Station in Telford , Shropshire United Kingdom on Sunday, October 20, 2019
Released 4 yrs ago (10/20/2019 UTC) at Telford Central Railway Station in Telford , Shropshire United Kingdom
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We are a Worldwide Group That shares books and leave them for people to find like on a Treasure Hunt.
I am very happy that you have found one of my books.
I hope you will read the book, enjoy it and then set it free to continue on with it's travels around the world.
Please leave the label attached, just so it can keep in touch with us and let us follow it's travels, hopefully around the world, and hopefully hear from the many people who find it and help it on it's travels.
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I have left this book on the Bookcrossing shelf in the ticket office at Telford Central Railway Station.
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Journal Entry 3 by AnonymousFinder at Telford , Shropshire United Kingdom on Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Found in the Telford train station! Based in Birmingham, will read and release wherever I find myself on finishing the book.