How come nobody told me about this?

Apparently, Stephen Fry is doing everything he can to extend and honor the legacy of Douglas Adams’s work. I already knew about Fry doing new audio versions of Adams’s books.

I did not know that in 2009, 20 years after Adams traveled the world and wrote his fantastic book Last Chance To See on endangered species and the people who are attempting to keep them alive, Stephen Fry traveled the world to look for endangered species himself, for the BBC.

Last Chance To See, the TV series, apparently revisited the places and animals that Adams originally sought out with zoologist Mark Carwardine (who also co-authored the book).

Carwardine is also in the TV series. The web site for the series (linked above) seems to have lots of good content, including blogs by both Carwardine and Fry about their travels. Unfortunately (for me), the multimedia content is only available in the UK. Doubly unfortunately for me, the DVD doesn’t appear to be available for Region 1.

This seems like a great project, and I’m glad that Fry took it up. If anyone out there is not familiar with Adams’s book, it is well worth a read. It has all his wit and intelligence, Mark Carwardine’s zoological expertise and it is still depressingly and startlingly relevant today, over 20 years after it was published.

And now, I shall leave you with a brief clip from the show: