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| Last Chance to See | 
| Authors: Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  177 reviews
Sales Rank: 17524
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0345371984
Dewey Decimal Number: 591.529
EAN: 9780345371980
ASIN: 0345371984
Publication Date: October 13, 1992
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Condition: good book, ever so gently used
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| Customer Reviews:
 Douglas Adams up with the best ! October 14, 1997
Douglas Adams has added another classic to a long list. He has proved himself as science fiction comedy writer and as a detective fiction comedy novelist. Now he has slipped into the world of travel with amazing ease, it seems there is little Mr Adams cannot write about. Although the book has a comical twist it never fails to under-line the major issues without patronising the reader. This leaves you somewhat enlightened and waiting for the next book from the enigmatic writer.
Adams Best Work To Date... September 2, 1997
DNA has written a brilliant and lighthearted look at a serious subject. Without ever preaching, he has managed to convey the fragility of our delicate and rapidly vanishing ecosystem. Adams has said, "I have made my career making a big thing out of little things, and a little thing out of big things." This book is the best and most educational demonstration yet that Adams can not only tell the big and little things apart, but that he can persuade the reader to agree
And you thought he was a cynic..... August 21, 1997
I never expected the man who kept me laughing throughout his career to make me weep. At the core of this light-hearted journey is a very serious subject; the fragility of life on earth, and humankind's abuse of it."Last Chance To See" is written in DNA's inimitable style, rife with dry humour, but he never loses sight of the tragedy, or the wonder
The most seriously funny book by Douglas Adams June 28, 1997
A series of stories of explorations to the last few remaining members ofalmost-extinct species. Although the subject is serious, the dry humor ofDouglas shines through every page of this book. Never heard of the kakapo (flightless bird that walks miles before it makes its mating call), the Yangtze dolphin or the Rodrigues fruit bat ? well, be fast, this may be the last time.
Just one little snippet to get a feel for his style:
"The problem, it gradually transpired after a conversation which flowed like gum from a tree, was this. She would only accept Tanzanian currency. She knew without needing to ask that we didn't have any, for the simple reason that no one ever did. This was an international transit lounge, and the airport had no currency-exchange facilities, therefore no one who came in here could possibly have any Tanzanian currency and therefore she couldn't serve them."
A MUST for anyone interested in promoting ecology! December 9, 1996
Douglas Adams shows us that there is more to him thanArthur Dent or Dirk Gently. The master of science fictionhumour has turned out a masterpiece of science fact. Adams'story of his involvement in tracking down some of Earths'most endangered species will captivate anyone with the slightest interest in ecology or natural science. His adventures, with Mark Carwardine, span the globe as he become entangled in a search for animals such as the fearsome Komodo Dragon and the Black Rhino. Written in his characteristic style of humour Adams will draw you into the plight of our animal cousins and will leave you with a decidedly different view of OUR place on the planet.
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