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SAVIEZ-VOUS…

que la planète Terre doit être détruite d’ici deux minutes ?

SAVIEZ-VOUS…

que votre meilleur ami est peut-être natif de Betelgeuse ?

SAVIEZ-VOUS…

que la poésie des vogons est vraiment exécrable ?

SAVIEZ-VOUS…

que le Président de nla Galaxie est peut-être moins idiotqu’il n’en a pas l’air (ou l’inverse) ?

SAVIEZ-VOUS…

quelle est la réponse à la Question fondamentalede la Vie, de l’Univers et du Reste ?

SAVIEZ-VOUS…que vous tenez en ce moment ce bouquin à l’envers ?

PAS DE PANIQUE !

Ce Guide du routard galactique a réponse à tout !

Das Buch

Die eigentliche Profession des Briten Douglas Adams ist das Verfassen von Kultbüchern aus der Science-fiction-Ecke spaßig-hintergründige Weltraumodyssee hat ihm eine weltweite, treue Fangemeinde beschert. Die Expedition, die er hier zusammen mit dem Zoologen Mark Carwardine beschreibt, ist keine Fiktion, und ihr Hintergrund ist durchaus ernst: Es ist eine Reise um die ganze Welt zu den aussterbenden Tierarten unserer Erde. Aber so ernst das Thema auch ist, in Douglas Adams' spritziger Feder wird es zum vergnüglichen Lesestoff. Egal, ob es zu den letzten 20 weißen Nashörnern in Zaire geht, zu den Kakapos, den größten, dicksten und flugunfähigsten Papageien der Welt auf Neuseeland oder zu den Riesenechsen auf der Insel Komodo – diese Spezies findet Adams übrigens nicht nur des penetranten Mundgeruchs wegen gänzlich unsympathisch –, komische Situationen ergeben sich bei so einem abenteuerlichen Unternehmen zwangsläufig. Man muß sie nur erzählen. Und genau das tun Adams und Carwardine in der sicherlich ungewöhnlichsten Reportage über die bedrohten Tierarten der Erde.

Die Autoren

Douglas Adams ist einer der erfolgreichsten englischen Autoren. Vor allem seine absurd-komischen Science-fiction-Romane haben ihm Weltruhm eingebracht. 

Mark Carwardine, ein international bekannter Zoologe, hat für den World Wildlife Found (WWF) gearbeitet und bereits mehrere Sachbücher veröffentlicht

Titel der Originalausgabe

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Join Douglas Adams’s hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You’ll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. The Hitchhiker’s Guide is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, and British sitcoms.

The fifth and final volume in the humorous SF series that began with THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY is somewhat darker than its predecessors. The Earthman Arthur Dent spends years selling genetic material in exchange for travel to various parallel universes in search of somewhere vaguely resembling his home planet. When he finally settles (actually, crash lands) on a backwater planet, his pleasant new career as tribal sandwich-maker is interrupted by the arrival of his daughter, Random–the result of those many, many sales of his DNA. Meanwhile, Arthur's friend Ford Prefect discovers that the happy-go-lucky executives of his employer, the publishers of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, have been replaced by a frighteningly grim and worryingly familiar new management team. His plot to disturb their business plan puts him once again into Arthur's path...with devastating results.

Join Douglas Adams’s hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc. Dent is grabbed from Earth moments before a cosmic construction team obliterates the planet to build a freeway. You’ll never read funnier science fiction; Adams is a master of intelligent satire, barbed wit, and comedic dialogue. The Hitchhiker’s Guide is rich in comedic detail and thought-provoking situations and stands up to multiple reads. Required reading for science fiction fans, this book (and its follow-ups) is also sure to please fans of Monty Python, Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series, and British sitcoms.

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even the British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all, and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

No rational cause could be found for the explosion - it was simply designated an act of God. But, thinks Dirk Gently, which God? And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport, trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo?

What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (poet), and pizza have in common?

Apparently, not much: until Dirk Gently, self-styled private investigator, sets out to prove the fundamental interconnectedness of all things by solving a mysterious murder, assisting a mysterious professor, unravelling a mysterious mystery, and eating a lot of pizza - not to mention saving the entire human race from extinction along the way (at no extra charge).

To find out more, read this book (better still, buy it and then read it) - or contact Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.