num_pages: 314
description: Join Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur Stephen Fry as he follows in his great friend Douglas Adams' footsteps with zoologist Mark Carwardine in search of some of the rarest and most threatened animals on Earth. In the 1980s celebrated writer Douglas Adams teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and together they embarked on a groundbreaking expedition travelling the globe in search of the world's endangered animals. Twenty years later comic genius Stephen Fry is returning with Mark to see if the species still exist. A major BBC television series follows the two on six separate journeys which take them to the Amazon basin East Africa Madagascar New Zealand Indonesia and Mexico to look for a flightless parrot the Amazonian manatee man-eating Komodo dragons man's closest living relative the northern white rhino and an animal so bizarre it seems to have been assembled from bits of other creatures. These are not just travels to the four corners of the world but a journey in time to open our eyes to what humans have done to the Earth in the 20 years since the original Last Chance to See expeditions. It is a unique insight into the disappearing world around us by one of the most extraordinary informed enthusiastic and amusing partnerships.
language: English
title: Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
publisher: HarperCollins