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A review by phwoooarker
Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
5.0
An unexpected problem I've encountered with living in a massive city like New York is that I periodically experience really intense cravings for nature (see: the biophilia hypothesis). When this happens, a manicured park or crowded long island beach just won't cut it for me. So whenever I get the big city blues and can't escape I try and find a book that'll make me feel like I'm camping under the stars/hiking in the Amazon/climbing Kilimanjaro. I can confidently say that this is the BEST nature replacement book I've ever come across.
Adams writes in a hilarious, engaging and entirely non judgemental way about his 1988 tour to find the most endangered species on the planet. In the thirty intervening years since it was published the book has lost none of its wit or relevancy. Along with Mark Cawardine, he went to try and find some of the rarest species on the planet in the wild.
The aye-aye in Madagascar:
(Basically what I imagined Dobby to look like before the HP films came out)
The Komodo Dragon in Indonesia
(There might be a bit of forced perspective going on in this picture)
The kakapo in New Zealand
(When Mark Cawardine returned thirty years later with Stephen Fry, one of these little fellas er... took a shine to him)
The Northern white rhino in Zaire
(There are now only three of these left in the world, all live in Kenya and are protected 24/7 by armed guards...)
Mountain gorillas in Zaire
The Yangtze river dolphin in China
(Sadly now extinct)
And the rarest bat in the world in Mauritius
I’d strongly recommend this to basically anyone and I'll definitely be reading it again, maybe to coincide with Towel Day one May 25th...
Adams writes in a hilarious, engaging and entirely non judgemental way about his 1988 tour to find the most endangered species on the planet. In the thirty intervening years since it was published the book has lost none of its wit or relevancy. Along with Mark Cawardine, he went to try and find some of the rarest species on the planet in the wild.
The aye-aye in Madagascar:
(Basically what I imagined Dobby to look like before the HP films came out)
The Komodo Dragon in Indonesia
(There might be a bit of forced perspective going on in this picture)
The kakapo in New Zealand
(When Mark Cawardine returned thirty years later with Stephen Fry, one of these little fellas er... took a shine to him)
The Northern white rhino in Zaire
(There are now only three of these left in the world, all live in Kenya and are protected 24/7 by armed guards...)
Mountain gorillas in Zaire
The Yangtze river dolphin in China
(Sadly now extinct)
And the rarest bat in the world in Mauritius
I’d strongly recommend this to basically anyone and I'll definitely be reading it again, maybe to coincide with Towel Day one May 25th...