Part travelogue, part natural history show, this unforgettable account of a remarkable voyage of discovery serves as a reminder to protect our planet while we still can. Sadly the Kakapo remains critically endangered, and Yangtze River dolphin was declared functionally extinct in 2006.

Voyaging from New Zealand to Chile, they hope to encounter the flightless Kakapo parrot, the river dolphin revered as the ‘goddess of the Yangtze’ and the secretive, confusing manatee – as well as the randy Rodrigues fruit bat, the terrifying (and smelly) Komodo dragon and the solitary Juan Fernandez fur seal.įunny, thought-provoking and poignant, Last Chance to See combines Adams’ inimitable humour and Carwardine’s expertise to provide a unique snapshot of our vanishing world and the rare creatures that inhabit it. LAST CHANCE TO SEE Paperback 10 September 2009 by Douglas Adams (Author), Mark Carwardine (Author) 757 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 268.10 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 4,119.00 2 New from 4,117.00 Paperback 1,152.00 3 New from 1,152. This collection includes the initial pilot show and the complete BBC radio series from 1989, in which Adams and Carwardine embark on a quest to track down weird and wonderful threatened species across the globe.

Douglas Adams died in 2001, but his friend Stephen Fry took his place for a follow-up 20th anniversary television series, broadcast on BBC Two in 2009. This led to a hugely popular radio series, Last Chance to See, later adapted as a bestselling book.

There he met zoologist Mark Carwardine, and together they made a radio pilot about their travels, In Search of the Aye-Aye. In 1985, The Observer magazine sent Douglas Adams to Madagascar to look for the exotic and potentially extinct aye-aye lemur. Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine travel the world in pursuit of species on the brink of extinction

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