According to Carwardine, “ We put a big map of the world on a wall, Douglas stuck a pin in everywhere he fancied going, I stuck a pin in where all the endangered animals were, and we made a journey out of every place that had two pins” (BBC, 2014). I mean, Adams and Carwardine travelled the world, not the lemurs the lemurs stayed in Madagascar as far as anyone can tell. They enjoyed the experience and decided to travel the world to see other endangered animals. In Madagascar Adams met not only weird lemurs, but also British zoologist Mark Carwardine. As he put it, “ My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise” (LCtS: p. Adams travelled to Madagascar in search of a lemur species, the aye-aye ( Daubentonia madagascariensis). His history with conservation started in 1985, when the World Wide Fund for Nature (better known as WWF) and British newspaper The Observer partnered up, sending writers to visit endangered species to raise public awareness (BBC, 2014).

He spearheaded or participated in several conservation initiatives, such as Save the Rhino International. However, unbeknownst to many of his fans, Adams was also an environmental activist. So bear with me for a moment – here goes: Adams is the author of the trilogy The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the self-proclaimed world’s largest trilogy, with five books in total. Adams is the author of… Well, that is pretty obvious and I should not have to write this down, but I will nonetheless, just because I won’t be able to sleep well otherwise. “ The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realized that it was a system at all and that it wasn’t something that was just there.” ―Douglas Adams, 1990ĭouglas Noel Adams was born on 11 March 1952 in Cambridge, UK, and grew up to become one of geekdom’s most revered icons. Wellington, New Zealand.Įmail: (at) gmail (dot) com

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