Summary of Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country

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Book Preview: #1 Australia is a difficult country to keep track of. We rarely pay attention to them, and this is strange considering they are a country that doesn’t misbehave and is peaceful and good.

#2 Because we know so little about Australia, it is a country that is worth getting to know. It is the only country that began as a prison, and the only one that is also a continent.

#3 Australia is a country full of strange and dangerous animals. It is the home of the Great Barrier Reef, and the largest monolith, Ayers Rock. It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else.

#4 Australia is a country full of life that is difficult to believe exists in such an inhospitable environment. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, and climatically aggressive country. Yet it teems with life in numbers uncounted.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669357551

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Insights on Bill Bryson's In a Sunburned Country

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Australia is a difficult country to keep track of. We rarely pay attention to them, and this is strange considering they are a country that doesn’t misbehave and is peaceful and good.

#2

Because we know so little about Australia, it is a country that is worth getting to know. It is the only country that began as a prison, and the only one that is also a continent.

#3

Australia is a country full of strange and dangerous animals. It is the home of the Great Barrier Reef, and the largest monolith, Ayers Rock. It has more things that will kill you than anywhere else.

#4

Australia is a country full of life that is difficult to believe exists in such an inhospitable environment. It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, and climatically aggressive country. Yet it teems with life in numbers uncounted.

#5

The country of Australia is both staggeringly empty and packed with interesting things. It is a country that is still full of undiscovered stuff.

#6

When you fly from North America to Australia, a day is taken away from you when you cross the international date line. For me, there was no January 4. None at all. Where it went, I couldn’t tell you.

#7

I had been planning to come out to start the traveling for this book, so this was a bonus trip. I was traveling with a young English photographer named Trevor Ray Hart, who was flying in from London.

#8

I have no idea how long I slept in the car, but when I woke up, there was a heavy silence in the car. The guide seemed uncomfortable with my silence, so we rode the rest of the way to lunch in silence.

#9

I was eager to make amends with the Sydneysiders, and I was introduced to a journalist named Deirdre Macken from the Sydney Morning Herald. We went to the Museum of Sydney, and then to the Taronga Zoo wharf. We didn’t visit the zoo, but instead went hiking around Little Sirius Cove and up through the steep and jungly hills of Cremorne Point.

#10

I was finally convinced to go into the water with Deirdre by her showing me how the boogie board works. It was promisingly simple in principle. As a wave passed, she would leap onto it and skim along on its crest for many yards. Then Glenn had a turn and went even farther.

#11

The author was abraded and nearly naked while shivering and half-drowned in the ocean, but she was resigned to her fate and knew that it would be over soon. Australians are so surrounded by danger that they