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  • 88 of 88 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 9 Soho_Black

    Member since 30/08/2002

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    5 Stars Take a Chance On Me Review with images 21/11/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Warmth, humour and some great descriptions.

    Disadvantages 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, buoyed with their success at doing what no-one else had done for some time and actually catching sight of the aye-aye, Douglas Adams and Mark Cawardine, the ... more
  • 42 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    x_elf_x

    5 Stars The animals at the end of their universe 30/08/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Ape-like creatures destroy an insignificant green planet

    Disadvantages Disadvantages This isn't fiction!

    Mention the name Douglas Adams and most people will instantly think of Zaphod Beeblebrox, Marvin the Paranoid Android, or possibly his recent, untimely death, at only 49, from a heart attack. What hardly anyone will think of is the wonderful book I am going to urge you to all 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 ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    R_Easton

    5 Stars Last Chance to Read 12/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Interesting, informative and thought-provoking

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Seemed short although may be i was just enjoying it.

    (I have put a couple of paragraphs copied from the book in this review. If you think this reveals too much of the story please comment on the comments page and I will consider changing.) I finally got around to reading this book just recently (Hence ‘last chance to read’) after being saddened by the death of my writing hero (see my Douglas Adams Op). I wasn’t sure to expect and didn’t expect what I got. This book not only has Douglas Adams and saving endangered species in the same book (I will remind you he originally intended to call HHGG ‘The Ends of the ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Trillian

    5 Stars Life, the planet and endangered species 27/08/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Everything

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    You may have guessed that I am a huge fan of the Hitch-Hikers 5-book trilogy. But you may be surprised to learn that this is actually my favourite Douglas Adams book. (Its also DA’s personal favourite and the one he most enjoyed writing - I think that comes across as you read.) WHEN: In 1988 Douglas Adams and zoologist friend Mark Carwardine embarked on an epic-ish adventure to track down various endangered species, accompanied by no more than a BBC sound engineer. They wrote a book about their experiences - published a year later, and the Beeb produced 6 radio programmes aired in the same ... more
  • 8 of 8 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Raybid

    4 Stars Last Chance to See, no scifi but is it funny 24/06/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Informative, funny and makes you think about some issues too.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Factual, no Arthur Dent or Dirk Gently!

    Not what you might expect from a Douglas Adams book, this is not fiction, or science really, its about a science fiction/comedy writer following an enviromentalist (Mark Cowardine) around photgraphing (or trying to!) rare and nearly extinct animals and birds. Not in itself a funny subject, the book does manage to merge the two writing styles very well, Mark supplies the experiance and facts, while Douglas takes our role and offers an outsiders view of the plain facts, the sadness of it all and the irony inherant in the whole das situation of mankind destroying some remarkable and beautiful ... more
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    drewish

    5 Stars An important and hilariously funny book. Read it. 28/11/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages It is by the late, great Douglas Adams

    Disadvantages 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 insightful descriptions of the many characters he comes across in his travels and the hardships - bureaucratic as well as physical -Adams encounters ... more
  • 3 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    NeilHudson

    5 Stars Under-rated 01/10/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Funny and moving

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not widely enough known

    "Last Chance to See" is a book that Adams co-wrote with Mark Cowardine - Cowardine seems to have provided the information and afterword whilst Adams himself appears to be the principal author. It recounts a series of expeditions the two embarked on to track down a number of endangered species. Adams claims that his main job was to make fun of them, and does so admirably; but his real satirical targets are the human beings who are responsible for the animals' plight, and whose bureaucratic inefficiency does its utmost to make their expeditions a failure. Douglas Adams might be a surprising ... more
  • 10 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    AtheistHistorian

    5 Stars Last chance to read 17/03/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Touching, insightful, entertaining

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    This is the way to write about endangered animals. Adams has a serious story to tell, but he does it with so much caring, gentle wit, and laugh-out-loud humour, that it’s a sheer delight to read this book from cover to cover. This may very well be the best book that Adams ever wrote. He ranges from insightful and philosophical musings to hilarious accounts of all the (mis)adventures that he and zoologist Mark Carwardine had while travelling to find the endangered animals that this book is about. The book begins with a brief introductory chapter, entitled “Twig Technology.” There then follows ... more
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