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Last Chance to See
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Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Author: Douglas Adams
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 1992-10-13
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Label: Ballantine Books
Number Of Pages: 256
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Editorial Review:
"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.
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Appeals to many readers  2008-12-15
I read this book a long time ago, in freshmen year of high school or so. I really enjoyed it then and I still enjoy it now. It takes the reader around the world and shows what is being done to help animals at death's door while giving the reader a little taste of other cultures and some amusing anecdotes. It's not a very long book either, so I would recommend it to others.
Sweet, funny, and Douglas Adams 2008-11-09
There is the reason why this was DNA's favorite book. Read it and you'll get a glimpse at the soul of one of the best writers of our times. If you like the Hitchhiker books, if you've enjoyed the Dirk Gently novels, and The Salmon of Doubt, this book is a must.
Bittersweet Goodbye 2008-11-01
One of my favorite people in the world is the late author, Douglas Adams, best known for being the creative genius behind the wacky, madcap series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (a "trilogy in five parts"). Those books have brought me an immense amount of joy -- but the chance to know Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox and the rest of the colorful (and arguably insane) characters making up Adams' Galaxy, are only part of why I love him so.
Though he made his name as a science-fiction comedy writer, Douglas Adams was so much more than that. He was obsessed with technology (especially all things Mac-related), a self-described "radical atheist," a pathological procrastinator and a passionate proponent of environmental and animal conservation. And it was this, his devotion to the earth and its creatures, which lead him to write the book he was most proud of in his career: a quiet, little title that few have heard of called Last Chance To See.
Last Chance... is an elegy to the endangered species struggling for survival in our world. It chronicles Adams' journey across various continents in search of amazing, but nearly extinct creatures such as the silverback mountain gorilla in Zaire, a flightless bird called the kakapo in New Zealand, and the half-blind baiji dolphin in China.
Adams' trademark humor is evident on every page, but there's also an enormous sense of melancholy present in what he writes:
"I suddenly felt, well, terribly old as I watched a mudskipper hopping along with what now seemed to me like a wonderful sense of hopeless, boundless naive optimism. It had such a terribly, terribly, terribly long way to go. I hoped that if its descendant was sitting here on this beach in 350 million years' time with a camera around its neck, it would feel that the journey had been worth it."
I highly recommend Last Chance To See to every human being inhabiting this planet. It's a funny, moving farewell to the animals we've lost, and a call to action for the ones we're about to lose.
Excellent read - humorous yet depressing!  2008-09-18
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 2008-06-24
What a fun, informative, important book. I put it on my summer reading list for my students!
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