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| View Larger Image | Last Chance to See
by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
| | List Price: | $14.95 | | Price: | $10.17 | | You Save: | $4.78 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 56714 | | Studio: | Ballantine Books | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 256 | | Publication Date: | October 13, 1992 | | Publisher: | Ballantine Books |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
"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. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 174 reviews)
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Great Fun 
What a fun, informative, important book. I put it on my summer reading list for my students!
June 24, 2008 | |
Douglas Adams' best book 
I like everything Adams ever put out, but I consider this one his best. It may not be as appealing to those who are mainly interested in the science fiction aspects of his other work, but the quality of writing and the subject material here are top notch. This book is simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, and is one of my all-time favorites. As a popular science book, it is simply without equal, and I really wish he could have lived longer to write more like it.
June 03, 2008 | |
Entertaining but sad
It is sad that such books are needed, but there's some hope in the book that we can still overcome the extiction of at least some species that we are responsible for pushing to the brink of extinction.
And off course Adams provide some good humorous bits ;)
April 02, 2008 | |
Amazing
This book is extremely hard to find outside of Amazon which is a real shame because this is definitely one of Adams' greatest, one that is not only absolutely hilarious but that reveals his own amazing character and interests in a profound way.
If you are an Adams fan at all or just liked the Hitchhiker Guide you really need this book, I'm thinking about becoming a zoologist after reading this but I expect they are not as funny.
August 23, 2007 | |
Great read!
Great and witty read as only Douglas Adams seems to be able to. Really sad that he is no longer around to write more gems like this!
Ignacio
August 19, 2007 | |
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