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...

• 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.