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Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
4.0
More enjoyable the second time around, but also a bit more depressing as I had read [b:Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams|6105931|Last Chance to See In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams|Mark Carwardine|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347399860s/6105931.jpg|21514031] in the interim between when the first and second readings of Adams' original.
Short enough that you can knock it out in a long evening, it sounds exactly what Adams fans think a book on endangered species written by him should sound. The guy is funny, and as dry as ever. Seeing the raw admiration and affection he has for the people globally who protect these animals (and, in some cases, the animals themselves), is enjoyable. This is NOT a serious/heavy zoological study. It's Adams traveling with/to extremely talented people and basically making a very funny case for preservation.
Short warning, his impression of what was then Zaire are colored by colonial humor (while also being entirely accurate). [a:Mark Carwardine|5652|Mark Carwardine|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1350242868p2/5652.jpg] does a better job in his follow-on postulating why the bureaucracy is so bad in certain African former colonies.
Short enough that you can knock it out in a long evening, it sounds exactly what Adams fans think a book on endangered species written by him should sound. The guy is funny, and as dry as ever. Seeing the raw admiration and affection he has for the people globally who protect these animals (and, in some cases, the animals themselves), is enjoyable. This is NOT a serious/heavy zoological study. It's Adams traveling with/to extremely talented people and basically making a very funny case for preservation.
Short warning, his impression of what was then Zaire are colored by colonial humor (while also being entirely accurate). [a:Mark Carwardine|5652|Mark Carwardine|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1350242868p2/5652.jpg] does a better job in his follow-on postulating why the bureaucracy is so bad in certain African former colonies.