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Alby Mangels: Beyond World Safari
by
Lynn Santer
Before Steve Irwin and Crocodile Dundee there was Alby Mangels -- the original Australian wild man and conservationist. An icon of the 80s who shot to fame and fortune through his ground-breaking World Safari series (as well as his many near death experiences and the beautiful women who were always in tow), Alby Mangels has finally broken fifteen years of self-imposed secl...more
Paperback, 236 pages
Published
November 22nd 2007
by Jojo Publishing
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I felt at times that the author simply watched Alby's documentaries and made notes. Although Lynn Santer knows Alby extremely well, she fails to provide the reader with thought provoking material. Their close friendship apparently got in the way of a more journalistic approach. For example, most of the controversy surrounding Alby and his documentaries is simply brushed away. Alby does vaguely comment on some of it but mostly, the storyline just follows his travels without adding extra informati...more
No one is a bigger Alby Manels fan than I am (hyperbole) and while this did a good job of filling in the black of who Alby was prior to and after World Safari, the writing is pretty bad. The author is very fond of exclaimation points, which made me feel like I was reading a childrens book. But if you can suffer through the Highlights for Children magazine level writing of the thing and are a fan of World Safari, then maybe it's worth your while. This should be a 1 star rating but Alby is worth a...more
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