Bill Bryson gives a detailed description of Australia, history, geography and much novelty thereof, with his journey through the continent described relatively briefly (unlike to boring infochannel documentaries where one wishes there was less of the narrator's back or face or whatever and more of the landscape) and there are a lot of anecdotes to enjoy, from funny to astounding to proving the uniqueness of the country.
Few things are as informative and this too about a huge country that is also a continent - and it is enjoyable too, as this writer generally is. It is amazing how much one does not know about Australia, and that is not about one person or so, it is about the rest of the world and even Australia.
There is the sheer huge number of species of dangerous insects and snakes and scorpions and so forth crawling around everywhere, that the continent proliferates with. New ones get discovered all the time, too, what with the interior of the continent being too dangerous to live or settle most of the places or even to travel except with a lot of luck.
The size of the continent can be judged by the fact that not only there are various animals that escaped or were let loose and are alive and well after several years or decades or so without humans being aware of them - animals like camels, no less, and others of various sizes - but in fact more.
At one point there was an atom bomb that went off in the middle of the continent - and no one knew until some organisation proudly owned up.
And then the prime minister of the nation who was lost while going on a walk. He fell into the ocean.
For more of such various interesting bits, one has to read the book.
