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'Last Chance To See'

  • 05-09-2003 8:38am
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    Wook
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    recommended reading

    'Last Chance To See'

    Reviews

    The Times
    ‘Descriptive writing of a high order . . . this is an extremely intelligent book’

    Listener
    ‘The best in Adams’s writing . . . constantly springing on the reader the kind of dizzying shift in perspective that was the stock in trade of Hitchhiker’

    Atlantic Monthly
    ‘Lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written and funny . . . ranks with the best set pieces in Mark Twain’

    Canberra Times
    ‘It is a book one reads in a rush, always looking forward to the next perverse paragraph, wise insight or felicitous phrase’

    Los Angeles Times
    ‘Life or death stuff, but Adams fails completely in the self-righteous-piety department. Instead he invites us to enter a conspiracy of laughter and caring’

    Book Description
    After years of reflecting on the absurdities of life on other planets, Douglas Adams teams up with zoologist Mark Carwardine on an expedition to find out what’s happening to life on this one. In Zaire, Bali, New Zealand’s Fiordland and on the Yangtze River, as well as on some of the remotest small islands in the world, Adams and Cawardine are awed by the strangeness and incredible beauty of the wildlife surviving there. From silverback mountain gorillas and African elephants to flocks of Rodrigues fruit bats, via baiji dolphins, pink pigeons, komodo dragons and echo parakeets – probably the rarest bird in the world – Last Chance to See is an amazing insight into the lives of some of the most endangered creatures on our planet.

    Synopsis
    The record of an odyssey by a zoologist and a zoologically-innocent comic novelist. It 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 parrot, the kakapot.

    About the Author
    Douglas Adams created all the various and contradictory manifestations of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy: radio, novels, TV, computer game, stage adaptations, comic book and bath towel. A major movie is currently in development hell and will almost certainly be released any decade now.

    Douglas Adams lectured and broadcast around the world and was a patron of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund and Save the Rhino International. He was born in Cambridge, UK and lived with his wife and daughter in Santa Barbara, California, where he died suddenly on May 11th 2001.

    (txt stolen from amazon)


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