In the original Last Chance To See (1990), zoologist Cawardine described travel with the late Douglas Adams, to visit exotic locations with endangered species (sad note, the Yangtze river dolphin has now been declared extinct). Now twenty years later, this book is subtitled “In the footsteps of Douglas Adams”; now Cawardine is travelling with the comic genius Stephen Fry, to view rare and peculiar animals (African white rhinos, Kakapo birds in New Zealand, lemurs in Madagascar …). Six chapters outline their travels to 8 countries in 5 continents.
This book has a unique view of a disappearing world: always informative, often hilarious, but mostly thought provoking.
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