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Last Chance to See is a travel memoir about sci-fi comedy author Douglas Adams’ and zoologist Mark Carwardine’s trip around the world in search of highly endangered species, and the people who dedicate their lives to protecting them. (The trip was to make a radio documentary series for the BBC, and the book is like… part ‘novelization’ of the radio show and part behind-the-scenes commentary?) I’m genuinely shocked it took me until 2019 to discover that this book even existed, because I was obsessed with animals and wildlife conservation as a kid, and Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series are some of my favorite books ever— he can do truly magical things with the English language.
Last Chance to See is not quite as Douglas Adams-y as Hitchhiker’s Guide, possibly because he has the slightly easier job of explaining things that actually exist, but it has some great lines in unique, iconic Douglas Adams fashion: “If you took the whole of Norway, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world, and filled it with birds, then you’d be wasting your time, because it looks very much as if someone has already done it.”
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Last Chance to See is not quite as Douglas Adams-y as Hitchhiker’s Guide, possibly because he has the slightly easier job of explaining things that actually exist, but it has some great lines in unique, iconic Douglas Adams fashion: “If you took the whole of Norway, scrunched it up a bit, shook out all the moose and reindeer, hurled it ten thousand miles around the world, and filled it with birds, then you’d be wasting your time, because it looks very much as if someone has already done it.”
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