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

By Allen Abel

For many years, as news correspondent, television host, and journalist, Allen Abel has travelled to some of the world's most fascinating, remote, or newsworthy spots to bring back his stories often offbeat, moving, perceptive, or humorous, but always wonderfully written. Now, inAbel'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 greet this book with delight but so will anyone who enjoys high adventure and superb writing. Allen Abel was prominent in the television coverage of the Sydney Olympics, and his reportage for theNational Postreceived highly favourable attention ?Abel is also regularly before television audiences as a feature host on "Hockey Night in Canada" Allen Abel is widely admired as an excellent writer and these pieces will add to that reputation

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077100706X
• ISBN13: 9780771007064
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Nobody writes like Allen Abel!

Allen Abel is one of the world's great travel writers. An expatriate New Yorker who's lived in Toronto for 25 years, he's reported for major Canadian papers and the CBC network from over 100 countries. I've been a devoted fan of his ever since he firstemerged as a sports writer in the '70s and have followed him fromBeijing to Brooklyn, Nova Scotia to New Guinea, and Turkey to Timbuktu. Wherever Abel is, you can always count on the most obscure, off-beat, and unusual experiences- and he's funny as hell too. Nobody, but nobody, writes like Allen Abel! It's a crime that most Americans don't know him. Pick this up and see why he's worth it.