Down Under

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As his many British fans already know, bearded Yankee butterball Bill Bryson specialises in going to countries we think we know well, only to return with travelogues that are surprisingly cynical and yet shockingly affectionate. It's a unique style, possibly best suited to the world's weirder destinations. It's helpful here: Bryson's latest subject is that oddest of continents, Australia.

For a start, there's the oddly nasty fauna and flora. Barely a page of Down Under is without its lovingly detailed list of lethal antipodean critters: sociopathic jellyfish, homicidal crocs, toilet-dwelling death-spiders, murderous shrubs (yes, shrubs). Bryson's absorbing and informative portrait is of a terrain so intractably vast, a land so climatically extreme, it seems expressly designed to daunt and torment humankind.

This very user-unfriendliness throws up another Aussie paradox. If the country is so hostile how come the natives are so laid back, so relaxed? As Bryson shuffles from state to state, he seeks the key to the uniquely cool Australian character and finds it in Australia's tragicomic past, her genetic seeding of convicts, explorers, gold diggers, outlaws. This is a country of lads and mates, of boozy gamblers--nowadays mellowed by sunshine and sporting success.

Down Under is a fine book. So it may not be quite as deliciously malicious as Bryson's The Lost Continent, nor as laugh-out-loud funny as Neither Here Nor There. But so what? A Bill Bryson on cruise control is better than most travel writers on turbodrive. --Sean Thomas --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

出版者:Black Swan
作者:[美] 比爾·布萊森
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頁數:432
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出版時間:2001-08-06
價格:GBP 8.99
裝幀:Mass Market Paperback
isbn號碼:9780552997034
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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. This is a country where even the fluffiest of caterpillars can lay you out with a toxic nip, where seashells will not just sting you but actually sometimes go for you. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistable currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. Ignoring such dangers - yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country. And who can blame him? The people are cheerful, extrovert, quick-witted and unfailingly obliging; their cities are safe and clean and nearly always built on water; the food is excellent; the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines. Life doesn't get much better than this.

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还行是说译文还行。不针对原著。 总算是出中文版了。现在买中文版的书总让人战战兢兢,不靠谱的译者太多了,寒心。这个还凑合。其实,翻的再烂,老布的书也是会全收的。为什么不推有声版呢? 还行是说译文还行。不针对原著。 总算是出中文版了。现在买中文版的书总让人战战兢...  

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还行是说译文还行。不针对原著。 总算是出中文版了。现在买中文版的书总让人战战兢兢,不靠谱的译者太多了,寒心。这个还凑合。其实,翻的再烂,老布的书也是会全收的。为什么不推有声版呢? 还行是说译文还行。不针对原著。 总算是出中文版了。现在买中文版的书总让人战战兢...  

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开始看Bill Bryson是因为听说他很幽默,在最初我也觉得是这样的,各种小笑话层出不穷,倒也可以看个热闹。 这几天看完了几本他的书,看多了就会发现他的幽默种类有点单一:基本上全是讽刺,有时候言过其实,而且总把自己摆在受害者的位置,看起来就是个whiny baby。而且有时候...  

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可愛的美國佬,典型的美式幽默,可是又透著些許悲天憫懷的普世價值觀。在描寫人的時候往往能一兩句話就勾勒齣AUSSIE。對於土著的描寫和感受,深有同感

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the very very frist i brought with me ..to the downunder !

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文字詼諧幽默,風趣之極,把一些細小的你心領體會的體驗描述的非常到位。比如他埋汰闆球說這是一種觀眾和運動員消耗卡路裏一樣多的運動,然後又更正說,如果觀眾比較熱血,應該比運動員消耗的卡路裏更高。最重要的一點,這本書是那種聽起來比看起來更爽的書。講的這個老頭講的非常好,平時用標準英語,但是模仿澳洲人的口音,精準到位,張口閉口的“mate”也隻有我們生活在土澳的村裏人纔能體會到其中精妙,搞笑之極。

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有趣,搞笑。

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the very very frist i brought with me ..to the downunder !

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