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Bill Bryson, is an anglo American, he travels to and from London, which makes us assume he lives in England

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This is an introduction.
Bill Bryson is an American author. He would be well traveled and more aware of the world

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The text type is an extract from a book that shares personal experiences on their travels, otherwise known as a travelogue.

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The text is taken from an extract of 'Down Under' by Billy Bryson. The genre of of this book is a travelog, which explains someones personal experience in a different country.

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The text is likely an extract from a book about the author's travel experiences in Australia. It can be an introduction to rest of the book, as a way to entice readers to read this book.

This leads the audience to be reader travellers keen on exploring outside places. It can also appeal to homebodies who haven't travelled.

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The text is an extract from a Travel book, or travelogue. We can assume assume this from the italicised title "Down Under". The extract seems to be an Introduction piece to the book starts from the very beginning of his experience in Australia (in the airplane), and ends with his final opinions of it "Clearly this is a place worth getting to know."

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The Intended audience for the travelog are people that are generally unaware or haven't given much thought towards Australia, and would like to be more enlighten about the country. More specifically, Americans, as the author emphasis the lack of publicity and importance America gives towards Australia.

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An extract from a travelogue. Possibly the introduction as it starts off by introducing us to Australia and what the text is intending to do.

Could also be a lengthy blog post as the text is informal and full of personal anecdotes from the author.

And it could also be an article for a magazine? Not very likely as the extract itself is very lengthy, but perhaps it would be a part of a series that gets published in a monthly issue.

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As the goal of the writer is to explore the interresting things that happen Australia, we can assume the intended audience are people who are not necessarily familiar with the country and therefore people who live far away, such as America where the writer is originally from.

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Would be American adults. Adults who would go read newspapers and inform themselves of global happenings and events, or people who like to learn new things.

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The extract's intended audience is geared towards the American audience who are interested in learning more about the underrated  country as they are not knowledgeable about the the country.

Australians may also be an audience, as the theme of the extract is based in Australia. Another group of audience are young people who have passion in travelling in places that are not necessarily the most popular.

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The text is aimed to American readers who may be interested global and political affairs, but perhaps don't have knowledge on affairs from different regions.

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To make the American reader more aware of Australia, as well as proving that Australia is a country that should be more acknowledged.

The author does this via referencing important historical events that would effect countries outside of Australia itself that has seemingly been ignored, proving the author's point of Australia be so commonly ignored.

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The purpose of the passage, named Down Under, tries to illustrate the underlying stories that Australia seems to be overshadowed by the rest of the world to the intended audience. The author goes all the way to uncover the deeper stories of the underrated country by going through archives of the New York Times.

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The purpose of this extract from Down Under, which is seen to be from a book, is to introduce to the intended audience the country of Australia. The writer does this by showcasing historical events that has happened in Australia such as their Prime minister being swallowed by a tide and setting off the world's first non-governmental atomic bomb. It's intended audience seems to be people living in America, seeing that the perspective of the protagonist is American and mentions points such as "From time to time it sends us useful things", including the word "us" means that he is speaking for his whole nation.

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This extract is an opinionated article that explores how ignored Australia is. The purpose is informative to show people interesting aspects of Australia, as well as persuasive, to prove that Australia is a country "worth getting to know"

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The purpose is to dig deeper into discovering what goes on in Australia as the article stated that only 20 articles were about Australian Affairs in 1997 and some other smaller countries seemed more relevant. It also gives us an overload of factual information about Australia which was previously not known. The article also tries to capture the essence of Australia with odd facts and a few stereotypes that make Australia what it is

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The purpose of this article is to share the authors bias views on Australia, and how he believes Australia to be an unexciting country. However, these is a sense of pity and and absurdity in the article that emphasises the extent to which Australia is forgotten by the rest of the world.

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The purpose of the text is to portray Australia in the light that it really is. It does not speak about the beauty of Australia, but the reality of their geographical features, and the leadership it is under. Bill Bryson prsents Australia as a 'useless country', "nothing we can't actually do without"