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This Kindle version has no photos like the paper copy. I am very disappointed and wish I'd saved my money.


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Last Chance to See Douglas Adams Mark Carwardine 9780099536796 Books Reviews

Have been rereading portions of the late atheist novelist Douglas Adams' Last Chance to See.

What a marvelous, hilarious, evolutionarily witty and brilliant piece of non-fiction this is. Allow me to briefly surmise some of the spectacular facets of this delightful book.

Well, screw that, here's what the book is...

Take the creator of Vorgons, Zaphod Beeblebrox, The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy, (and that 5 book series) and put him in the real-life context of

* tourists wearing vulgar tourists in exotic places
* sniveling and unhelpful airplane customer service people
* endangered animals
* commuting on a rickety boat with a three-day-old dead goat
* some of the most venomous snakes and creatures to exist
* and more

I love how Douglas (in studying evolution in this book a bit) dissects everything. There was one passage where he deconstructs the composition of the paper pages and leather binding of a notebook (I would've used computer personally lol) (bollocks I will find it and quote it exactly but can't open kindle at moment)

He does things and has descriptions like that throughout the book. He made a witty, true, and interesting parallel between vulgar tee-wearing tourists (who happened to be from a non-uk country) convergently evolving in a way that was similar to brits that he knew.

I never knew Adams personally, but love the man and his work (possibly as much as Dawkins seemed to, whom wrote a lament for Douglas). He's easily one of, or The, fave sci-fi authors, but that said, this non-fiction of his is even better. Hilarious and wise simul.

Put one of the world's most amusing fiction sci-fi authors in with the ants and dirt and forests embarking to see some of the rarest animals on the planet. It's marvelous, insightful atheism, didactic evolutionary biology, promisingly british, freakishly funny, and just awesome.
This is a fantastic read part travelogue, part memoir, part lay-persons guide to conservation and biology. Adams, the ever witty and sharp humorist, poignantly documents the nature he experiences in far-flung and seldom-visited corners of the world, home to exotic and wondrous creatures on the brink of extinction. His documentation of the conservation efforts, often led by a handful of dedicated and underpaid people, is a captivating trip across the world that highlights the danger that humans are oblivious wreaking on the environment. However, it is also a tale of hope, showing that despite our technological and societal advancement that endangers these rare species, we can affect change that will save these otherwise helpless animals.
Highly recommend to anyone with a heart for animals or for dry British wit.
While a bit dated at this point, this is still a great book. It does something so rare, yet completely needed it imparts some serious conservation information in a way that is fun and entertaining to read and learn about. Sadly, some of the species in this book did not make it and are now extinct, but several others are still struggling to survive and so this would be a good read to learn about their plight. Even those with little to no knowledge or interest in saving species would likely find this a good read due to Adams clever and comedic style. Totally worth the purchase. Be sure to get this one with the new sequel (oddly also called "Last Chance to See") by Carwardine and Fry, in which they go back to these same locations to update the status of the species Carwardine and Adams saw more than two decades ago.
I normally wouldn't review a twenty-five-year-old book, but since "Last Chance to See" is just as relevant today as it was in 1990, some words are warranted. Also, being an author myself, who writes similar humor-infused, ecologically-minded travel books, I must say that from now on Douglas Adams will be the writer I most aspire to emulate.

Although Douglas Adams is most famous for humorous fiction writing, for some reason his novels, like "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," never grabbed me. Perhaps I just wasn't in the mood at the time--I will certainly try again. But when it comes to travel-oriented nonfiction, Adams is absolutely the best. I especially recommend "Last Chance to See" for people who enjoy reading Bill Bryson, but wish that Bryson had bigger adventures that were more wildlife-oriented.

What a shame that Douglas Adams died at such a young age. Fortunately books live forever. "Last Chance to See" is an ongoing wake-up call about the serious, irreparable damage humans are doing to Planet Earth, told in a way that will bring you to tears--both tears of sadness and tears of laughter.

I don't know how this book escaped my reading list all these years, but I'm glad I found it now!

Marty Essen, author of Cool Creatures, Hot Planet Exploring the Seven Continents
and "Endangered Edens Exploring the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica, the Everglades, and Puerto Rico" (to be published in January 2016).
This version has no photos like the paper copy. I am very disappointed and wish I'd saved my money.