In the series, Adams and Carwardine travel to various locations in the hope of encountering species on the brink of extinction. Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See Tagged: Life, Earth, humans, Mankind It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Two days of frustration with Indonesian red tape later, Adams, Carwardine, and BBC producer Gaynor Shutte fly to Labuan Bajo, where Kiri. Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams eBook Details. Last Chance to See is a 1989 BBC radio documentary series and its accompanying book, written and presented by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. Carwardine explains that tourists are examples of "convergent evolution," the process whereby unrelated species develop similar structures under identical conditions-like the aye-aye and long-fingered possum of New Guinea Learning from a noted Australian venom expert that it is best not to be bitten, they head to Bali, advertised as the most beautiful place on earth but fully spoiled by and for tourists. Douglas Adams Legacy Stephen and Mark discuss the original series and their mutual friend. Three years later, Adams and Carwardine meet in Australia, where Carwardine tells of ancient Chinese stories about scaly, fiery breathed, man-eating monsters and Western sailors who mark on maps "Here be dragons." The first modern Westerner to meet a dragon lizard crash lands on tiny Komodo Island, the expedition's next destination. Join Douglas Adams, bestselling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an adventure in search of the world’s most endangered and exotic.
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