Last Chance to See [Paperback]

‘Descriptive writing of a high order . . . this is an extremely intelligent book’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

‘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’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

‘Lively, sharply satirical, brilliantly written and funny . . . ranks with the best set pieces in Mark Twain’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

‘It is a book one reads in a rush, always looking forward to the next perverse paragraph, wise insight or felicitous phrase’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

‘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’ --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

"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.

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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.