Join Mac on a romp through the Amazon jungle, a Kenya safari, a secluded visit to the home of vanishing condors in Patagonia (The Land of Big Feet), on a journey to the Land of Ice and Fire, and the Canadian Arctic. Tipple from his well of intoxicating prose, and among the witticisms of this ex-editorial cartoonist's life-happenings you will hopefully discover a few pearls of wisdom to enhance your own life.

If you like Stephen Leacock's books, you will love this one. Pull up a comfortable seat and relax amongst Bert Parker's cronies in Bert's Fix-It Shop in the small hamlet of Porcupine Junction situated in Northern Ontario. Here you will be exposed to the philosophies of a rag-tag bunch of folks who know how to enjoy life and what is important in it. Hidden amongst the humorous antics of this zany bunch of characters, you will discover a selection of valuable pearls of wisdom which if adopted just might enhance your own life.