Abel's Outback: Explorations and Misadventures on Six Continents, 1990-2000 by Abel, Allen

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. Softcover. Fine. ix, 332 p. 22 cm. Paperback. Signed by author on title page.

U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart, 2001. Book. Fine. PAPERBACK. Signed by Author(s). 1ST. An Outstanding Copy - Signed By The Author On The Title Page. A First Edition, First Printing. Book Is In Fine Condition. Boards Are Clean, Not Bumped. Fore Edges Are Clean. Interior Is Clean And Legible. Not Remaindered. Thanks And Enjoy..

" For many years, as a news correspondent, television host, and journalist, Allen Abel has traveled to some of the world's most fascinating, remote, or newsworthy spots to bring back his stories often offbeat, moving, wise, or humorous, but always wonderfully written. In Abel's Outback, he has drawn on his writing of the last decade. Here is a sampling of ten years of adventure on all six continents. Whether he is hunting for the wild platypus with an Australian forest ranger, boating up the Amazon with a descendant of Charles Darwin, journeying to catch a glimpse of remote Timbuktu, cringing before the oil-well fires in Kuwait, taking tea with cousins of the Queen Mum, spending Christmas in Hong Kong, reporting on the plight of a Sudanese taxi driver in Inuvik (how do you have sundown prayers in a place where the sun doesn't go down), or revisiting one of the strangest spots of all his native Brooklyn Allen Abel is inquisitive, original, observant, and often hilariously funny. Fans of Allen Abel will… Read More