Recommended by my girlfriend, this book by Douglas Adams has been sitting on the reading stack for a while. Partly because I had other things to read in the meantime, partly because I felt like I needed a break from Adams' writing for a while.
I don't know if it was the last bit that made the difference, but I really liked this book. Adams and Carwardine are travelling around the world on a mission to shed some light on endangered species (and the pure fact of how shitty we've been treating our world). I had a slight idea of what to expect from a talk by Adams I had watched a while ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc) and was not disappointed.
As the book has been written in the late 80s, I'm curious to find out what has happened to the species in the past 20 odd years. Too bad Adams himself is now part of the rare kind of people that no longer enlighten us with their wisdom, humour and wit. :(
Recommended by my girlfriend, this book by Douglas Adams has been sitting on the reading stack for a while. Partly because I had other things to read in the meantime, partly because I felt like I needed a break from Adams' writing for a while. I don't know if it was the last bit that made the difference, but I really liked this book. Adams and Carwardine are travelling around the world on a mission to shed some light on endangered species (and the pure fact of how shitty we've been treating our world). I had a slight idea of what to expect from a talk by Adams I had watched a while ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZG8HBuDjgc) and was not disappointed. As the book has been written in the late 80s, I'm curious to find out what has happened to the species in the past 20 odd years. Too bad Adams himself is now part of the rare kind of people that no longer enlighten us with their wisdom, humour and wit. :(