"After years of reflecting on the absurdities of life on other planets, DOuglas Adams teams up with zoologist Mark Carwardine on an expidition to find out what's happening to life on this one."
We follow Douglas and Mark as they go off in search of endangered species. From the Aye-Aye lemur in Madagascar, where Mark and Douglas first met. To Indondesia to see the Komodo Dragon. On to Zaire to see Northern White Rhinos. Then to New Zealand to see the Kakapo. To Nanjing on the Yangtze river to find the Baiji dolphin. And finally to Mauritius to go in search of the Rodrigues fruitbat (much to the consternation of their guide Richard who thinks that they are far too common to be worth bothering with - after all there are over 100 of them still living...)
The book is written in the Douglas Adams style, but is never short of facts. And some of those facts are quite thought-provoking, how humans seem to see something that is rare as being something worth having or killing, because its rare.
My rating: Excellent