书籍介绍
这并非一本教你规划行程的旅行指南。Bill Bryson把澳大利亚当作一个庞大、空旷、身处世界边缘的庞然大物来打量：它是唯一既是岛屿又是大陆的地方，拥有地球上最古怪也最致命的生物，以及热情得近乎不真实的居民。书中穿插着令人啼笑皆非的历史逸闻——那位连迷路都出名的探险队长、那位无聊到近乎透明的总理、那句'除了这里什么也没有'的堪培拉。读者最难忘的，恰是作者笔下那种独特的失落感：当你离开澳大利亚，它就从此从世界舞台消失，一切照常运转，却与你再无关系。这是一部为'荒凉的宝库'所作的深情证词，适合那些愿意在笑声里重新认识一片大陆的读者，而非急于获取实用攻略的人。
AI导读
核心看点
- 幽默风趣的澳大利亚深度游记
- 融合历史地质与奇闻轶事
- 展现澳洲独特自然与人文风貌
读者共识
- 语言幽默，知识密度高
- 是了解澳洲的绝佳入门读物
- 兼具趣味性与科普价值
精彩摘录
- "I drove in the gloomy frame of mind that overtakes me at the end of every big trip. In another day or two I would be back in New Hampshire and all these experiences would march off as in a Disney film to the dusty attic of my brain and try to find space for themselves amid all the ridiculous accumul"
- "当知道一切都可能消失在一缕烟里，你绝对会感激这一切。"
- "They chose as leader an Irish police officer named Robert O’Hara Burke, who had never seen real outback, was famous for his ability to get lost even in inhabited areas, and knew nothing of exploration or science."
- "He would, he announced, continue to reside in Sydney and commute to Canberra as duties required. As you can imagine, this caused an uproar among Canberra’s citizens, presumably because they hadn’t thought of it themselves. What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dul"
- "Then I decided to come up with a new slogan for Canberra. First I wrote: ‘Canberra – There’s Nothing to It!’ and then ‘Canberra – Why Wait for Death?’ Then I thought some more and wrote: ‘Canberra – Gateway to Everywhere Else!’,"
- "Give Australians an issue and they will argue it so passionately and in such detail, from so many angles, with the introduction of so many loosely connected side issues, that it soon becomes impenetrable to the outsider."
- "Australians won 3.78 medals per million of population, a rate more than two and a half times better than the next best performer, Germany, and almost five times the rate of the United States."
- "I am quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket was left in Australian hands, within a generation the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other. And the thing is, it would be a much better game for it."
用户评论
一边读，一边回忆起在澳大利亚旅游的日子。没想到这本书那么长，还分Part 1,、Part 2，通过本书对澳大利亚有了再全面的认识。看到第14章，Bill吓唬朋友一路充满各种危险时实在太逗了；看到第17章，了解澳洲土著悲惨处境和遭遇，看哭了我。
没想到说的是澳大利亚 听说那边房市崩了不知道是真是假 = = 但看到标题 我第一个想到美国 即便在硅谷 我也觉得特别村 ……
教科书一般的游记写作。但看到后半部分还是被老爷子东一句西一句的穿插给搞晕了。
读这本书比我在澳洲待了一年知道的要多。
hilarious.
对一个人的品行最好的评判方法是看他对弱于自己的人的态度和行为。对一个国家一个种族一个文明的评判方法也一样。在这一点上，澳大利亚得负分。作者也充分表达了自己在这方面的不赞同。除此之外，作者还是一如既往地风趣和博闻，听完之后对澳大利亚这个国家有了一个从里到外的了解。
wish he could write another one after 20 years...
还行吧，大胡子一贯的风格
跟着布莱森大叔去旅行之四——神奇国度澳大利亚。送女儿上学路上一起听的大叔自己朗读的有声书。即便她只用一只耳朵（另一只永远插着airpod），也能听得笑出猪叫。
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