By Mark Carwardine
EPUB eISBN: 9780007525843
Original ebook: 2009
Electronic book: 2014
Authored & photographed by way of: Mark Carwadine
Foreward through: Stephen Fry
sign up for zoologist Mark Carwardine and Britain's best-loved wit and raconteur, Stephen Fry, as they keep on with of their nice good friend Douglas Adams' footsteps, looking for the various rarest and such a lot threatened animals on the earth. 20 years in the past, zoologist Mark Carwardine teamed up with the overdue Douglas Adams (author of The Hitch Hiker's consultant to the Galaxy) and jointly they launched into a groundbreaking day trip, vacationing the globe looking for a number of the world's so much endangered animals. Now Mark has teamed up with one among Douglas's closest acquaintances – comedian genius Stephen Fry – to work out how all these animals were faring within the years on account that. In final likelihood to work out, and the accompanying significant BBC tv sequence, we stick with the not likely duo on six separate trips which take them from the steamy jungles of the Amazon to the ice-covered mountain tops of recent Zealand and from the sting of a warfare sector in primary Africa to a sub-tropical paradise within the North Pacific. alongside the way in which, they look for a number of the most unearthly, so much extraordinary and so much creatures on the earth: a wide, black, sleepy animal simply wrong for an strangely listless mudbank, a parrot with a tune like an unreleased choice of red Floyd studio outtakes, a rhino with sq. lips, a dragon with lethal saliva, an animal approximately the size of a Boeing 737 and the creature probably to emerge from the shipment doorways of a spaceship.A targeted perception into the disappearing international round us, this is often their hilarious, wonderful, informative and thought-provoking story.
About the Author
Mark Carwardine is a zoologist, author, photographer, advisor and broadcaster with a distinct curiosity in marine flora and fauna. He has written greater than forty books, together with a number of bestsellers, and provides a wide selection of common heritage programmes on BBC Radio four. A prepared diver for a few years, he leads shark and whale-watching vacations to many components of the area and is an ardent supporter of numerous natural world conservation firms. comedian genius and Renaissance guy, Stephen Fry is author, actor, comic, broadcaster, director and librettist. He used to be voted one of the all time most sensible 50 comedians by way of fellow comedians and ranked sixth within the BBC's best dwelling Icon awards.
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