Book review

If as a child you enjoyed Gerald Durrell's excellent books (as I did, and in fact still do), pick up Douglas Adams's and Mark Carwardine's "Last Chance to See". The book covers a year-long trip around the world to visit some of the world's most endangered species in their native habitats that Adams and some other people undertook on behalf of BBC in 1988. And then Adams wrote a book about it with all the humor that one would expect and some of the zoological details and environmental insights that come as a nice surprise. Even if you couldn't care less about the fate of kakapos, Komodo dragons, aye-ayes, all of which while still endangered are alive and have a chance, or baiji dolphins, which were declared "functionally extinct" on December 13, 2006, give this book a try. If nothing else, Adams's description of attempts to buy condoms in China (successful) or some snacks in the Tanzanian international transit lounge (unsuccessful) will have you in stitches.

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