Last Chance to See is a book written by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine first published in 1990, as a companion to the BBC radio series of the same name. The theme of documentary was to feature animal species which were endangered or threatened with extinction. A BBC television remake of the series, with Stephen Fry replacing the late Adams is airing in 2009 and has a website.
The Observer Colour Magazine initiated moves in 1985 to send a zoolo...
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Last Chance to See is a book written by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine first published in 1990, as a companion to the BBC radio series of the same name. The theme of documentary was to feature animal species which were endangered or threatened with extinction. A BBC television remake of the series, with Stephen Fry replacing the late Adams is airing in 2009 and has a website.
The Observer Colour Magazine initiated moves in 1985 to send a zoologist, Mark Carwardine, and a writer, Douglas Adams, to Madagascar, to search for a nearly extinct lemur.
Later this developed into several journeys to find various species, including:
Many of these excursions became the basis for the BBC Radio 4 series of the same name.
Many of the excursions were written into the companion book, though not all, allegedly due to Adams' notorious writing delays. An example is that of the Amazonian Manatee, covered in a radio episode first transmitted on 18 October 1989, but not in the subsequent book.
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