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The record of an odyssey by a zoologist and a zoologically-innocent comic novelist. It ... more

began in 1985 with a search for a rare lemur in
Madagascar and went on to include expeditions
which witnessed fruitbats  man-eating lizards 
gorillas  a blind dolphin and the most inept
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Stephen Fry - Last Chance To See

Stephen Fry - Last Chance To See

Join Britain’s best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in the ... more

footsteps of his great friend, the late writer
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy), along with zoologist Mark Carwardine,
to remote parts in search of some of the rarest
and most threatened animals on Earth. Twenty years
ago Carwardine teamed up with Adams and embarked
on a groundbreaking expedition in search of some
of the world's most endangered animals. This time,
he is joined by Stephen Fry to see how all those
animals have been faring in the years since and
which, if any, survived. In this programme we
follow the duo on six separate journeys which take
them from the steamy jungles of the Amazon to the
ice-covered mountain tops of New Zealand and from
the edge of a war zone in Central Africa to a
sub-tropical paradise in the North Pacific. Along
the way, they search for some of the weirdest,
most remarkable and most troubled creatures on
earth: a large, black, sleepy animal easily
mistaken for an unusually listless mudbank, a
parrot with a song like an unreleased collection
of Pink Floyd studio outtakes, a rhino with square
lips, a dragon with deadly saliva, an animal
roughly the length of a Boeing 737 and the
creature most likely to emerge from the cargo
doors of a spaceship. Last Chance to See is a
unique insight into the disappearing world around
us, and this is their hilarious, entertaining,
informative and thought-provoking adventure.


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Last Chance To See

Last Chance To See

Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur Stephen Fry as he follows in his great ... more

friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist
Mark Carwardine  in search of some of the rarest
and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s
celebrated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with
zoologist Mark Carwardine and together they
embarked on a groundbreaking expedition 
travelling the globe in search of the world's
endangered animals. Twenty years later  comic
genius Stephen Fry is returning with Mark to see
if the species still exist. A major BBC television
series follows the two on six separate journeys
which take them to the Amazon basin  East Africa 
Madagascar  New Zealand  Indonesia and Mexico to
look for a flightless parrot  the Amazonian
manatee  man-eating Komodo dragons  man's closest
living relative  the northern white rhino and an
animal so bizarre it seems to have been assembled
from bits of other creatures. These are not just
travels to the four corners of the world  but a
journey in time to open our eyes to what humans
have done to the Earth in the 20 years since the
original Last Chance to See expeditions. It is a
unique insight into the disappearing world around
us  by one of the most extraordinary  informed 
enthusiastic and amusing partnerships.


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Last Chance To See

Last Chance To See

Douglas Adams' genius was in using comedy to make serious points about the world' - ... more

"Independent". After years of reflecting on the
absurdities of life on other planets  Douglas
Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine to
find out what was happening to life on this one.
Together they lead us on an unforgettable journey
across the world in search of exotic  endangered
creatures - animals that they may never get
another chance to see. They encounter the animal
kingdom in its stunning beauty  astonishing
variety  and imminent peril: the giant Komodo
dragon of Indonesia  the helpless but lovable
Kakapo of New Zealand  the blind river dolphins of
China  the white rhinos of Zaire  the rare birds
of Mauritius Island in the Indian Ocean. Both
funny and poignant  "Last Chance to See" is the
tale of an unforgettable wildlife odyssey - and a
timely reminder of all that we must protect.


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Stephen Fry - Last Chance To See

Stephen Fry - Last Chance To See

Join Britain’s best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as he follows in the ... more

footsteps of his great friend, the late writer
Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy), along with zoologist Mark Carwardine,
to remote parts in search of some of the rarest
and most threatened animals on Earth. Twenty years
ago Carwardine teamed up with Adams and embarked
on a groundbreaking expedition in search of some
of the world's most endangered animals. This time,
he is joined by Stephen Fry to see how all those
animals have been faring in the years since and
which, if any, survived. In this programme we
follow the duo on six separate journeys which take
them from the steamy jungles of the Amazon to the
ice-covered mountain tops of New Zealand and from
the edge of a war zone in Central Africa to a
sub-tropical paradise in the North Pacific. Along
the way, they search for some of the weirdest,
most remarkable and most troubled creatures on
earth: a large, black, sleepy animal easily
mistaken for an unusually listless mudbank, a
parrot with a song like an unreleased collection
of Pink Floyd studio outtakes, a rhino with square
lips, a dragon with deadly saliva, an animal
roughly the length of a Boeing 737 and the
creature most likely to emerge from the cargo
doors of a spaceship. Last Chance to See is a
unique insight into the disappearing world around
us, and this is their hilarious, entertaining,
informative and thought-provoking adventure.


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Take a Chance On Me

Advantages: Warmth, humour and some great descriptions.
Disadvantages: Knowing that Adams is gone, and there'll not be more like this

In 1985, The Observer newspaper decided to send Douglas Adams to Madagascar to hunt for a virtually extinct lemur. No-one seems quite sure exactly why they did this, including Douglas Adams himself. Quite possibly, it’s because he was quite good at creating strange alien creatures that no-one is ever likely to see, and no-one really expected him to ever see the aye-aye, the lemur in question.

Quite against the odds, he did. And so, ...
...done for some time and actually catching sight of the aye-aye, Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine, the zoologist who had accompanied him, decided to go looking for some more endangered species.

In 1988, they did. The result was “Last Chance to See”, quite possibly the best piece of non-fiction writing you may ever come across, and definitely the best book I have ever read about endangered wildlife.

It’s essentially just ... more

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The animals at the end of their universe

Advantages: Ape-like creatures destroy an insignificant green planet
Disadvantages: This isn't fiction!

...rush out and by - Last Chance to See - which he wrote with acclaimed zoologist Mark Carwardine. I'm sensing a few of you shuffling in your seats already (please don't it's very off-putting) and I can hear the almost inaudible whisper of 'he wrote a book with a zoologist???!'. But book he wrote and what a book it is. It is, essentially, a non-fiction catalogue of a number of endangered species - and when I use the term endangered here I am talking ...
...animals are drinking in the last chance saloon of life. It is Adams gift for description which makes the book so readable, for example, when visiting the baiji dolphin, he likens their system of navigation - echolocation - to the use of bike bells by the Chinese, thus making the animal much easier to understand and, along the way, providing an insight into modern Chinese living. This book is about the animals, but it is so much more than that. It ...

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Last Chance to Read

Advantages: Interesting, informative and thought-provoking
Disadvantages: Seemed short although may be i was just enjoying it.

...Medium Rare? - In the last chapter Douglas and Mark go to Mauritius to see (ready?) Rodrigues Fruitbat, Mauritius Kestrel, The Dodo, Echo Parakeet and the Pink Pigeon. They see so many rare animals in this chapter because Mauritius (like the Galapagos islands) has many rare animals. They originally intend to go to Rodrigues but were convinced otherwise by a local who had all of these animals at a conservation centre. The kestrel turns out to be ...
...and has some very interesting mating habits. (One of these birds may be a fake, to see if you were listening (reading)) At the end of the book a chapter has been added to say how the animals have been doing since the pair were there. All of the animals are doing well it reveals. I believe this book isn’t very well known (and you may be reading when you haven’t even heard of the book) but I would definitely recommend it to anyone who ...

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Life, the planet and endangered species

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: None

...that we can make up the rules for ourselves as we go along." Further point of interest: You can also get Last Chance on CD-ROM the text is accompanied by hundreds of photographs, maps, interviews, sound recordings and datasheets about the animals, its also read aloud by DA. ...

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Last Chance to See, no scifi but is it funny

Advantages: Informative, funny and makes you think about some issues too.
Disadvantages: Factual, no Arthur Dent or Dirk Gently!

...endangered species, it has the best of both worlds, some startling statistics about world conditions and the last chances we have to see some species that are on their last breath, and some funny asides by the best comedy SF writer in the history of everything. Go buy it NOW! ...

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An important and hilariously funny book. Read it.

Advantages: It is by the late, great Douglas Adams
Disadvantages: Difficult to find in my bookshop - wasn't sure where to look and had to ask an assistant.

This is an inspiring and truly great book, told with Adams' trademark quirky sense of humour. This book is partly great travel writing, partly natural history, partly brilliant comedy and partly committed environmentalism. Even if you are not into saving the planet, this book is still worth reading due to Adams' great gift for telling a story. It is a wonderful evocation of the terrible damage we are doing to the environment, as well as containing ...
...his travels and the hardships - bureaucratic as well as physical -Adams encounters in accessing some of the remotest parts of the globe. Adams sets out to discover the rarest animals on theplanet, with the help of a biologist Mark Carwardine. There are many stand-out moments from the book. The brilliant description of the Komodo dragon's island home, followed by the devastating anti-climax when we realise that it has been made into a tourist trap, ...

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series, but this book the RATEOTU puts the story in all connections with the history of the 3 later books. The trilogy is altogether an excellent read. The trilogy is also available on unabridged audio books read by Douglas Adams. Other books by douglas Adams ------------------------------------------- > The Meaning of Liff (1983, with John Lloyd) > The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts (1985, with Geoffrey Perkins) > The Utterly Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Book which includes: + Young Zaphod Plays it Safe + The Private Life of Genghis Khan, + A Christmas Fairly Story + "Supplement to The Meaning of Liff" >The Deeper Meaning of Liff > Last Chance to See > The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1994) > Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic > The Salmon of Doubt (2002), unfinished ...

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