Down Under

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if you're gonna read a book, read the book In a Sunburned Country.

The New York Times travel writer goes around Australia for three or four months and has all kinds of awesome experiences, and he tells great stories.

But he spent a week of that time on a train that went from, like, Melbourne to Perth, and he's like, "This is really the only safe way." You know, if you're a known idiot, you shouldn't be out [laughs] which is how he describes himself.

... you shouldn't be out wandering around the Outback.

You'll get yourself killed.

Uh, that's one of the themes of the book, is all the crazy ways to get hurt or die in Australia.

Uh, but y- yeah, a week on a train.

What book would you recommend to our History

Matters listeners? One of my favorite books is Bill Bryson's book, In a Sunburned Country.

It's about Australia.

Yes.

I'm gonna share one book that I'm reading right now, just about finished.

It's by Bill Bryson, and it's called In a Sunburned Country.

It's his exploration of Australia back in the '90s, where he went all across the continent.

We think of it as a country, but it's the largest island in the world.