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I strongly recommend Bill Bryson: Down Under - the funniest travel book I know of. He is obsessed with all the dangers of wildlife, in a very positive way and hillariously funny way, such as stating that an encounter with a crocodile "may be an extremely irreversible experience".
"If you're out in the bush and a snake comes along, just stop dead and let it slide over your shoes."
This, I decided, was the least-likely-to-be-followed advice I had ever been given.
"What about sharks?" I asked uneasily.
"Oh, there's hardly any sharks here. Glenn, how long has it been since someone was killed by a shark?"
"Oh, ages," Glenn said, considering, "Couple of months, at least."
Australia's creatures seemed to have evolved as if they had misread the manual.
He also goes into numeric figures for how many new species of both venomous snakes and other kinds of animals are classified every year. The reason this one made it into media is because it is good looking - not because finding and classifying a new species in itself is anything extraordinary in Australia. At least not if we are to believe Bill Bryson.

Even if Bryson might be exaggregating to some degree (that is an element of his style of humour): Read "Down Under". I haven't yet met anyone who did not find the book highly entertaining.
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