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Lovely little adventure a la Bill Bryson No one knows, incidentally, why Australia's spiders are so extravagantly toxic; capturing small insects and injecting them with enough poison to drop a horse would appear to be the most literal case of overkill. Still, it does mean that everyone gives them

It takes a visitor, a renowned, witty and perceptive writer to show us what Australia is all about. I recently responded to a friend’s review of this book, particularly comments about all the nasty creepy-crawlies that we have here. A short time later, I stumbled upon a copy in a roadside library - Leggi tutto

What an absolute delight this was! After reading two really dark novels, down under lifted my spirts immensely. In addition I learnt so much about a country I now have to visit. Like all of Bryson’s travel books, I was mesmerized by the fascination people he met. Adding small outbursts of laughter t Leggi tutto

I developed a taste for Bill Bryson last year when I read his Short History of Nearly Everything , an ambitious attempt to trace the history of life, the universe and everything in just 574 pages. While many of the scientific discoveries outlined in the book were a little beyond me, I thoroughly enjo Leggi tutto