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Last Chance to See

Last Chance to See

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: nice book
Review: Last Chance to See was an ok book. It had intresting facts on there that i didn't know before. Some parts were boring and seemed to drag on. It had some subtle jokes in it which were pretty funny. So overall it was a good book with nice facts

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Wild Adventure
Review: The book is bery unique. I like the book because the narrator is a great writer. He makes the book more interesting with many of the embarrassing experieces. The book itself is animated with great descriptions of the many endanger animals they got to see. The many places that Adams, and the missionaries travel. The amazing adventures they when trough when meeting new people. The pictures and the places Adams describe when visiting gives a clear vivid picture. In the book, Adams take us the readers to a second world that none of us have ever been, but would be egger to go out and experience in our own.
After I read the book I though in my mind of the many endanger animals and become concern. I would recommend the book to people who is very much interested on wild animals and like to travel. As for me it was interesting and fun reading the book. You'll like it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Wild Adventure
Review: The book was bery unique. I like the book because the narrator is a great writer. He makes the book more interesting with many of the embarrassing adventures they experiece. The book itself is animated with great descriptions of the many endanger animals they go to see. The many places that Adams and the missionaries travel, and the amazing adventures they when trough.

After I read the book I though in my mind of the many endanger animals and become concern. I would recommend the book to people who is very much interested on wild animals and like to travel.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Salvation
Review: I recommend this book to everyone to educate themselves on the extinction of animals across the globe, such as the aye-aye which is a nocturnal lemur from the large island of Madagascar, which is off the South Eastern part of the continent of Africa.
Also there are many other native spices along with the aye-aye on this island, these native spices exist no where else in the world.

I was amazed by the education I received from this book on endanger spices of today. Also I learned and agree on there methods and techniques on how to prevent the endanger spices from extinction. For example the Kakapo is on a road to a slow recovery in southern Stewart Island. They also have located a new female in the region. They relocated them with great risk to Codfish Island, but its hopes and high tech methods such as conservatives and special patrols that actually live on the island. All though there have been threats by hunters in the past hunted for sport, and have not realized the value of these animals to this day.

Since the beginning of time man has mastered the technique of hunting. All though it was a way of life until the genesis of agriculture began, man continues to abuse hunting leaving in its waste extinction by the handfuls. It seems through our selfishness many of us do not care about the extinction of fowl, mammals, reptiles, etc., etc.

I feel that the wildlife foundations through out the world do not receive the proper respect, creditability, and funds it deserves in order to preserve the earth's elements, and spices. I also believe there should be laws protecting and aiding those spices that are on extinction as well as those that are near extinction.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: We can only do so much.
Review: Last chance to see was another book that reminds us of the obvious. We all know that are fast growing population is overcrowding the earth but, nobody wants to stop having sex. Unless we find a way to control the population all species are going to be introuble including ourselves. I think the human race has bigger issues that need to be adressed. We should do somthing about but not to extrem matters.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Gaining Knowledge and Adventure
Review: Although reading isn't my thing, this book was a good book and I would read it again. It portrays both adventure and knowledge of animals that people probably never even think twice about. It made me see animals in a different way, especially the endangered ones. It was a good book because it was also entertaining at some points and it gave information and cool pictures on endangered animals such as the giant Komodo dragon, blind river dolphins, white rhinos and the rare of birds. It kept me interested throughout the book because every chapter was a new adventure. If you like animals you would especially like this book and if you don't, it could change your mind.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: An interesting adventure
Review: Last Chance To See gives the average person an opportunity to not only see endangered animals, but allows a glimpse in to the world of zoology and animal conservation from the perspective of an outsider. Throughout the book Adams quite amusingly relates the predicaments he finds the endangered animals in into analogies about computer programming, discotheques, and British motorcycles. Using the analogies Adams guides you through the many problems that threaten the animals he finds on his journey.

Adams journey to see endangered animals has him zigzagging around the globe. He travels to China to see dolphin, Africa to see rhino, New Zealand to see a bird that cannot fly, and a couple of islands scattered around the world to see a host of other animals. While Adams journey is to find endangered animals he also takes you along for the little adventures that come with traveling to countries with cultures that differ from his own.

While in China Adams finds that the language and culture barrier make it nearly impossible to fined condoms. Which are used to waterproof a microphone, so his crew can hear the dolphins underwater. During the condom shopping Adams attracts a large crowd of very curious Chinese people and finds he feeling like an animal on display in the zoo.

Last Chance To See is a good book that mixes humor and a concern for the animals that are rapidly dieing out, and the steps that people are taking to preserve them. Adams perspective as a non-zoologist is very helpful, because he explains animal behavior and some of the theories about conservation in laymen's terms. After reading this book I felt more connected to and concerned for animals that are endangered. I would recommend this book to any one who likes animals or likes to travel.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: class
Review: The book was funny but only after the jokes were broken down in class. On the serious side of the book it tells all about animals in danger of dieing off. Every trip that Adams and Carwardine took some thing interesting happened to make to trip even more memoralble. Over all the book is easy but yet hard to read depending on the reader.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Last Chance to See
Review: The book Last Chance to See was a pretty good book. I really don't like reading but it was an ok book. I would not read it again because i hate to read. But if u are looking for a good book about endangerd aniamls then this is the one for you.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Last Chance to See
Review: A man with a great sense of humor and author of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams take his readers to a trip to different places of the World to use the last chance to see a variety of animals on the brink of extinction, such as the Komodo Dragon, the White Rhinos of Zaire, New Zealand kakapos, and Yangtze river dolphins. Adams, amateur wildlife lover, is wise enough to know the purpose of his journey: to shine some of the glare from his celebrity as a "science-fiction comedy novelist" on the issue of global extinction. In this remarkable book he invites readers to explore a world of extraordinary exotic and endangered species captured here in words and pictures.
The book is very enjoyable and I strongly recommend it. This is ultimately a book of hope, inspiring us to consider the impact we have on the environment in which we live and urging us to take an interest in more than ourselves.


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