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Last Chance to See

Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Mark Lynas loved it
For me, Last Chance to See is a real eye-opener, with the idea that you can take a depressing subject – species on the verge of extinction – and present it in a way which is so engaging, so funny and so humane. I would like to be able to do that as a writer.

on fivebooks.com · 12 Jun 2009

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.