Bill Bryson

Down Under

Travels in a Sunburned Country

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Produktbeschreibung

It is the driest, flattest, hottest, most desiccated, infertile and climatically aggressive of all the inhabited continents and still Australia teems with life â a large portion of it quite deadly.

Produktdetails

• Bryson
• Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 725901
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781784161835
• ISBN-10: 1784161837
• Artikelnr.: 44125162

Autorenporträt

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. His bestselling books include The Road to Little Dribbling, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, One Summer and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. In a national poll, Notes from a Small Island was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed work of popular science, A Short History of Nearly Everything, won the Aventis Prize and the Descartes Prize, and was the biggest selling non-fiction book of its decade in the UK. His new book The Body: A Guide for Occupants was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and is an international bestseller. Bill Bryson was Chancellor of Durham University 2005-2011. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society. He lives in England.

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