[at-l] The Bryson Book

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

What I want to know is this - what WAS the cause of that explosion out
in the middle of nowhere in Austraila that Bryson talked about in his
"Sunburned" book!??  Seriously!!

thru-thinker

Jim and/or Ginny Owen wrote:
> 
> I've read several of the Bryson books - and you're right, A Walk in the
> Woods is far from his best.  It had its funny parts, but a lot of the second
> half was pretty dull.
> 
> The thing to remember is that he isn't an outdoor writer, he's a travel
> writer -- and a would be humorist.  They are quite different.  In his books,
> Bryson wrote about wandering through Europe, driving around the Midwest,
> traveling through England and Australia.  The Australian book was the best
> of them, I thought.  He really explored that country in depth and reawoke my
> old desire to spend time there. It seemed to me he described a lot of places
> that ordinary tourists would never see, but might want to. I liked that one.
> I don't know what the Australians thought of it though.  They may have had
> the same thoughts that AT hikers had about a Walk in the Woods - how dare he
> make fun of us?
> 
> Ginny
> 
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