成人快手

鈥淚t's funny how often, every author I know, their own favourite book is the one that sold the least鈥� My favourite book is what I鈥檓 here to talk about tonight.鈥�

Douglas Adams is best known as a science fiction writer. But in the late 80s, the author of The Hitchhiker鈥檚 Guide To The Galaxy embarked on something completely different. After a life-changing meeting with a rare lemur called an Aye-Aye, he decided he wanted to travel the world with the zoologist Mark Carwardine, in search of endangered species. Their journeys became a book and a Radio 4 series called Last Chance To See.

A few years ago, Katherine Rundell stumbled upon Last Chance To See in a second hand book shop. 鈥淚t was a revelation... the way that he managed to salute the intricate variety and infinite strangeness of living things and still tell some of the best jokes that you will encounter in print, that seemed to me both an extraordinary thing and the thing that we need so much more of.鈥�

Here, Katherine Rundell revisits the story behind the book and Radio 4 series 鈥� as told by its co-author Mark Carwardine in a new interview, and Douglas himself, thanks to archive from the lecture Douglas gave at the University of California in 2001, just a month before his death .

Ever ahead of his time, the message of the book is even more stark today.

鈥淲e don't have to save the world. The world's fine. The world has been through five periods of mass extinction鈥�. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it. That's what we need to think about.鈥�

With thanks to Mark Carwardine, the Douglas Adams Estate, and the University of California.

Presented by Katherine Rundell. Produced in Bristol by Polly Weston