| | Last Chance to See |  | Author: Douglas Adams
Publisher: Random House Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $16.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  175 reviews
Sales Rank: 1567541
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7 x 4.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0679401938
EAN: 9780679401933
ASIN: 0679401938
Publication Date: February 20, 1991
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"Very funny and moving...The glimpses of rare fauna seem to have enlarged [Adams'] thinking, enlivened his world; and so might the animals do for us all, if we were to help them live."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Join bestselling author Douglas Adams and zooligist Mark Carwardine as they take off around the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures. Hilarious and poignant--as only Douglas Adams can be--LAST CHANCE TO SEE is an entertaining and arresting odyssey through the Earth's magnificent wildlife galaxy.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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 Excellent read - humorous yet depressing! September 18, 2008
Expertly written and Adams interjects not a little humor into an otherwise depressing topic. I wouldn't mind a slightly longer treatment of some of the animals seen, and an afterword detailing the sad demise of a couple of them would be welcome.
Great Fun June 24, 2008
What a fun, informative, important book. I put it on my summer reading list for my students!
 Douglas Adams' best book June 3, 2008
I like everything Adams ever put out, but I consider this one his best. It may not be as appealing to those who are mainly interested in the science fiction aspects of his other work, but the quality of writing and the subject material here are top notch. This book is simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, and is one of my all-time favorites. As a popular science book, it is simply without equal, and I really wish he could have lived longer to write more like it.
Entertaining but sad April 2, 2008
It is sad that such books are needed, but there's some hope in the book that we can still overcome the extiction of at least some species that we are responsible for pushing to the brink of extinction.
And off course Adams provide some good humorous bits ;)
Amazing August 23, 2007
This book is extremely hard to find outside of Amazon which is a real shame because this is definitely one of Adams' greatest, one that is not only absolutely hilarious but that reveals his own amazing character and interests in a profound way.
If you are an Adams fan at all or just liked the Hitchhiker Guide you really need this book, I'm thinking about becoming a zoologist after reading this but I expect they are not as funny.
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Wildlife, nature and the Environment
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