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Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country (Bryson Book 6)

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Billboard called it a "tongue-in-cheek story song that relies on percussion and vocals more than sax." [17] Cultural significance [ edit ] Anyway. Bill Bryson wrote accounts of his travels, with Down Under chronicling his encounters in Australia. And he made it interesting. I can't say that I'm entirely interested in Australia, and all I knew before opening this book was that they have an Opera House in Sydney that's apparently quite nice. However, as Bill Bryson attests, there's so much more to Australia that no one ever bothers to notice. For example, that their prime minister, Harold Holt, just disappeared into the ocean one day, and practically no one knows about it.

British single certifications – Men at Work – Down Under". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 7 July 2023.Bill Bryson is on a short-list of go-to writers when I need a thoughtful but not too taxing book. His travel works seem to follow the Bryson formula:

Top Selling Singles of 2022". Recorded Music NZ. Archived from the original on 22 December 2022 . Retrieved 22 December 2022. When I read Bill Bryson, I am prepared to learn a lot about whatever locale he is covering in the book, knowing some of it will go right over my head, plus to be entertained by his snarky humor. No different here. Some of the Australian towns were less interesting than others, but it's obvious that Bill enjoys his travels even with all his complaints and sarcasm. Australia is so "preposterously outsized" he could travel it forever and never see all there is. Bryson writes: “The monumental emptiness of Australia is not easy to convey. It is far and away the most thinly peopled of nations. In Britain the average population density is 632 people per square mile; in the United States the average is 76; across the world as a whole it is 117. (… in Macao… it is a decidedly snug 69,000 people per square mile.) The Australian average, by contrast, is 6 people per square mile…” I wonder if it is Australia’s great distance from more populated landmasses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. – Henry Rollins I'm going to have to read this again as there are stories in here that I want to find, the ones about the ultra-fast miniature wallaby and the gold prospector who lost his find of gold seams coming to the surface.Dangerous? No," Deirdre replied now as we stood gawping at the bluebottle. "But don't brush against it." ARIA Top 100 Singles Chart for 2022". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 4 January 2023. Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-31-2503-3. Australia is an even more interesting place than I thought. Let Bill Bryson give you an entertaining and educational tour. He researched many books and questioned many people in preparation for his visits to Australia. Bill Bryson is not exactly known as an adventurer despite having written a few "travel guides". In fact, he's known for being constantly looking up and subsequently freaking out about all sorts of dangers. Him going to Australia ...

Bryson writes: “Whereas Canberra is a park, Adelaide is merely full of them. In Canberra you have the sense of being in a very large green space you cannot ever quite find your way out of; in Adelaide you are indubitably in a city, but with the constant pleasant option of stepping out of it from time to time to get a breath of air in a spacious green setting. Makes all the difference… Adelaide is the most overlooked of Australia’s principal cities. You could spend weeks in Australia and never suspect it was there, for it rarely makes the news or gets a mention in anyone’s conversation. It is to Australia essentially what Australia is to the world—a place pleasantly regarded but far away and seldom thought about. And yet it is unquestionably a lovely city.” I’m sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars. – Buzz Aldrin Australia’s treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians – Not just now, but in the greater perspective of history.” – Gough WhitlamSlang and drug terms are featured in the lyric. It opens with the singer "travelling in a fried-out Kombi, on a hippie trail, head full of zombie". In Australian slang, "fried-out" at that time meant that it is in really poor condition and overheating (as in a short circuit rather than drunk/high), "Kombi" is short for "Kombinationskraftwagen" and refers to the Volkswagen Type 2, and "full of zombie" refers to the use of a type of marijuana. [12] " Hippie trail" refers to a subcultural tourist route popular in the 1960s and 1970s which stretched from Western Europe to South-East Asia. The song also contains the refrain "where beer does flow and men chunder". To "chunder" means to vomit. [12]

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