比尔·布莱森,世界知名的非虚构作家,1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州,曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》,同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等刊物撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等,横跨多种领域,皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝、整体上举重若轻,能让普通读者产生很强的认同感,不失为雅俗共赏的典范,深受读者喜爱,也获得很高的评价,每部作品均高踞美、英、加畅销排行榜前茅。
比尔·布莱森之所以能在二十世纪的旅游文学中占据一席之地,并成为目前世界公认的最有趣的旅游文学作家,是因为他擅长用不同的眼光来看待他所游历的世界,他真切地捕捉到了一个旅人的内心感受。自然地理、生活情趣、社会时态,布莱森信手拈来无不奇趣,使普通读者产生很强的认同感。他的尖刻加上他的博学,让他的文字充满了智慧、机敏和幽默。作为在英国生活了二十多年的美国人,他的作品又兼具了开朗风趣、绝不怕粗俗的美式调侃和冷峻犀利、一针见血的英式嘲讽。
Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail (well, most of it) resulted in the sublime national bestseller A Walk in the Woods. Now he has traveled across the world and all the way Down Under to Australia, a shockingly under-discovered country with the friendliest inhabitants, the hottest, driest weather, and the most peculiar and lethal wildlife to be found on the planet. In a Sunburned Country is his report on what he found there--a deliciously funny, fact-filled, and adventurous performance by a writer who combines humor, wonder, and unflagging curiosity.
Australia is a country that exists on a vast scale. It is the only island that is also a continent and the only continent that is also a country. Despite being the most desiccated, infertile, and climatically aggressive of all inhabited continents, it teems with life. In fact, Australia has more things that can kill you in extremely nasty ways than anywhere else: sharks, crocodiles, the ten most deadly poisonous snakes on the planet, fluffy yet toxic caterpillars, seashells that actually attack you, and the unbelievable box jellyfish (don't ask). The dangerous riptides of the sea and the sun-baked wastes of the outback both lie in wait for the unwary. It's one tough country.
Bill Bryson adores it, of course, and he takes his readers on a rollicking ride far beyond the beaten tourist path. Here is a place where interesting things happen all the time, from a Prime Minister lost--yes, lost--while swimming at sea to Japanese cult members who may have set off an atomic bomb (sic) entirely unnoticed on their 500,000-acre property in the great western desert.
Wherever he goes (and Bryson goes just about everywhere) he finds Australians who are cheerful, extroverted, and unfailingly obliging--the beaming products of a land with clean, safe cities, cold beer, and constant sunshine. On occasion the Aborigines, a remote and mysterious race with a tragic history, make a haunting appearance in this book. But by and large Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide. Published just in time for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, In a Sunburned Country offers the best of all possible introductions to what may well be the best of all possible nations. Even with those jellyfish.
2019年2月23日我把这本几乎十年前读完的书又通读了一遍,距我们从阳光明媚的昆士兰州回来仅为一个礼拜。 澳大利亚就是一个没有什么需求的时候不会让人有感觉的地方。然而,他是如此的宽敞和未知,国民是如此充满活力。 布莱森的游记是如此不同,十年前毫无感觉的文字如今读来如...
评分在图书馆中闲来无事,本着放松身心的想法,随意的从书架中抽出了这一本书,结果歪打正着,好悬没把自己笑岔气。比尔布莱森 实在是是一位优秀的作家,看着轻松幽默却又勾起人想马上放下书,,背着行囊远走四方的冲动。这本书应该适合茶余饭后或者旅行途中轻松休闲的读物,要是在...
评分这是我读的第一本旅游随笔类型的书,超长。400页。。每一页都很喜欢。。写得好,翻译得也好。。我对旅游和地理、历史都不太感兴趣,而这个作家写的正是我的菜。。故事、传说、关注风景以外的人的故事,这个国家被发现的故事。。充满传奇性。。还有探险。。还有笑话。。还有一点...
评分布莱森的游记系列绝不可错过! 他那幽默风趣的语言,已经不只是看书的感觉了,更多的时候你是觉得这位走遍世界各地的人,风尘仆仆的来到你的面前,扑通坐在你的对面,喝上一口咖啡,就开始了滔滔不绝地讲述。 像一个久未蒙面的发小,聊着这些年不见时他遇到的好玩的事和有趣...
评分这本书好在:它是一个外国人的澳洲游记,既有一个局外人对澳大利亚的种种惊诧,又因作者本人的好奇博学让人充分了解到奇风异俗后的深厚渊源;它介绍了澳大利亚的简短历史,也描述了澳洲经百亿年才形成的自然地质奇观;它既诙谐幽默让人捧腹,又不留情面的涉及澳洲殖民史而沉重...
I would call this book a travel guide, yet from a very personal perspective. Advice: don't read it before u go there but read it after.
评分还行吧,大胡子一贯的风格
评分Australia is an immense and fortunate land, and it has found in Bill Bryson its perfect guide.
评分读这本书比我在澳洲待了一年知道的要多。
评分好想沿着Stuart highway 一路从Darwin 开到Alice spring
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