![]() ![]() In Garamba National Park, they find some of the last surviving northern white rhinoceroses left in the wild. ![]() They fly next to what was then known as Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo) on a plane full of smiling missionaries and battle corrupt officials to visit mountain gorillas in the Virunga Volcanos. There, they encounter obtrusive bureaucracy and meddlesome tourists in Bali. Three years later, their first stop on this larger tour is a government preserve in Indonesia to find the Komodo Dragon. Based on their experience searching for the Aye-Aye, they decide to begin a larger search for the critically endangered species of the world. Adams and Carwardine are on separate assignments to find the elusive Aye-Aye, a primate once considered extinct. In both, author Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fame and zoologist Mark Carwardine travel to exotic locations to find endangered species on the brink of extinction. Last Chance to See is a 1990 nonfiction book accompanying a 1989 BBC radio documentary series of the same name. ![]()
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