List $29.95Written by Douglas Adams - Audio book performed by Martin Freeman - Unabridged Fiction - 5 COMPACT DISCS - 5 hours, 45 minutes
Publisher, Random House Audio (June 2006)
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"HYSTERICAL!" --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"ADAMS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE TREASURES: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading." --The Arizona Daily Star
• Why it is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems with just potatoes…
• How the planet Krikkit, hostile to anything that is not Krikkit, comes to be encased in a Slotime envelope…
• Why Arthur Dent has such an urgent wish to return the Ashes to Lord's Cricket Ground, and why a can of Greek olive oil becomes his most prized possession, symbolizing as it does the oneness of things…
• How the campaign for Real Time is determined to reverse the erosion of the differences between one century and another caused by easy time travel…
All these mysteries and more come to light in this, the third volume of the Hitchhiker's trilogy. Follow Arthur Dent on a day which begins with his visit from Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (whose goal is to insult everyone in the universe—alphabetically) and ends with the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth—which turns out to have entirely too much to do with frogs.
About the Author: Douglas Adams was born in 1952 and educated at Cambridge. He was the author of five books in the Hitchhiker’s Trilogy, including The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe; Life, the Universe and Everything; So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish; and Mostly Harmless. His other works include Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency; The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul; The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff (with John Lloyd); and Last Chance to See (with Mark Carwardine). His last book was the bestselling collection, The Salmon of Doubt, published posthumously in May 2002.
