In A Sunburned Country
By Bill Bryson
Broadway Books, $25
ISBN 0767903854

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Title of your new book:
In a Sunburned Country

Describe your book in 50 words or less:
It's about what an amazing place Australia is -- and it is!

What's your favorite place in Australia?
The outback (or better still, a pub in the outback).

What advice would you give Olympians traveling to Sidney for the first time?
Take the harbor ferry to Manly for fish and chips.

Which Australian beer would you recommend, warm or cold?
Cascade from Tasmania -- very cold.

Is there any place on Earth you'd like to visit and haven't yet?
Lots, but I'd especially love to go to Japan.

Your most aggravating habit?
Being hopelessly absent-minded.

What is the subject of your next book?
The whole world.

What one thing would you like to learn how to do?
Lose weight through eating.

Bill Bryson is the author of several travel books including A Walk in the Woods, his 1998 bestseller about two middle-aged men who set out to conquer the Appalachian Trail. In a Sunburned Country is available this month from Broadway Books.

Author photo by Jerry Bauer.