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Abel's Outback: Explorations and Misadventures on Six Continents, 1990-2000 by Allen J. Abel, ISBN 077100706X

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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, 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 greet this book with delight -- but so will anyone who enjoys high adventure and superb writing.

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Robert Culp and Bill Cosby star as international espionage agents Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott on highly dangerous missions in this ever-popular, award winning series. Culp poses as a world-class playboy/tennis player, and Cosby goes undercover as his trainer. Together they travel the worlds, trading quips and fighting high-level crime with cool bravado and extraordinary savoir-faire. Combining humor with action/intrigue, "I Spy" was the first adventure TV series to be shot in exotic international locales, establishing a new standard for television dramas. I Spy Box Set #2
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A Good Story and Other Stories by Donald E. Westlake, ISBN 1558820353

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Michael Smith: Drawings

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Abel's Outback: Explorations and Misadventures on Six Continents, 1990-2000 by Allen J. Abel, ISBN 077100706X

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Abel's Outback: Explorations and Misadventures on Six Continents, 1990-2000 by Allen J. Abel, ISBN 077100706X

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