Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine lead us on an unforgettable journey in search of the world's most endangered species
Douglas Adams (Author)
DOUGLAS ADAMS was born in Cambridge in March 1952. He is best known
as the creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which
started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. The book went on to be a No.
1 bestseller. He followed this success with The Restaurant at the
End of the Universe (1980); Life, The Universe and Everything
(1982); So Long and Thanks for all the Fish (1984); Mostly Harmless
(1992) and many more. He sold over 15 million books in the UK, the
US and Australia. Douglas died unexpectedly in May 2001 at the age
of 49.
Mark Carwardine (Author)
Zoologist MARK CARWARDINE is an active and outspoken
conservationist, award-winning writer, TV- and radio - presenter,
widely published photographer, magazine columnist and consultant.
He presented the weekly programme Nature on BBC Radio 4 for many
years and is co-presenter, with Stephen Fry, of the BBC-TV series
Last Chance to See. The author of more than 50 books, including
several bestsellers, he has been Chairman of prestigious Wildlife
Photographer of the Year Competition since 2005.
Descriptive writing of a high order ... this is an extremely
intelligent book
*The Times*
In every case, the presence and personality of the endangered
animals rise off the page - even when the authors don't manage to
find them. The writing may be witty, but this book is a sobering
reminder of what a very great deal we have to lose
*Independent on Sunday*
This is life or death stuff, but Adams is a writer who chooses not
to shake his finger at the reader. He fails completely in the
self-righteous-piety department. Instead he invites us to enter a
conspiracy of laughter and caring
*Los Angeles Times*
It is a book one reads in a rush, always looking forward to the
next perverse paragraph, wise insight or felicitous phrase
*The Canberra Times*
Last Chance to See brings out the best in Adams' writing ...
constantly springing on the reader the kind of dizzying shift in
perspective that was the stock in trade of Hitchhiker'
*The Listener*
Descriptive writing of a high order ... this is an extremely
intelligent book * The Times *
In every case, the presence and personality of the endangered
animals rise off the page - even when the authors don't manage to
find them. The writing may be witty, but this book is a sobering
reminder of what a very great deal we have to lose * Independent on
Sunday *
This is life or death stuff, but Adams is a writer who chooses not
to shake his finger at the reader. He fails completely in the
self-righteous-piety department. Instead he invites us to enter a
conspiracy of laughter and caring * Los Angeles Times *
It is a book one reads in a rush, always looking forward to the
next perverse paragraph, wise insight or felicitous phrase * The
Canberra Times *
Last Chance to See brings out the best in Adams' writing ...
constantly springing on the reader the kind of dizzying shift in
perspective that was the stock in trade of Hitchhiker' * The
Listener *
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