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  BBC - h2g2 - Last Chance To See, by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
The Last Chance To See Book was released in 1990, not long after the radio series.
The Last Chance To See CD-ROM was released in 1995, it contained a whole host of photographs, the entire text from the book, a complete reading of the book by Douglas Adams, extracts from the radio series and additional audio material.
The Official Last Chance To See website, has text from the book, photos, a clip from the radio series and outakes from Douglas reading the book.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2843002   (2163 words)

  
 Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Last Chance to See is witty, well-crafted and avoids preachiness.
The trip to Zaire to see one of the 22 remaining northern white rhinos is introduced with the shocking image of leopard skin -- made into a "rather natty" pill-box hat adorning the country's president in an airport photo.
Last Chance to See brilliantly brings the environmental situation to the readers, evoking gasps, laughter and tears.
rambles.net /carwardine_lastchance.html   (409 words)

  
 Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Last Chance to See is witty, well-crafted and avoids preachiness.
The trip to Zaire to see one of the 22 remaining northern white rhinos is introduced with the shocking image of leopard skin -- made into a "rather natty" pill-box hat adorning the country's president in an airport photo.
Last Chance to See brilliantly brings the environmental situation to the readers, evoking gasps, laughter and tears.
www.rambles.net /carwardine_lastchance.html   (409 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Last Chance To See: Books: Douglas Adams,Mark Carwardine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Last Chance to See Ballantine, 1990, 222 pp., $...
Last Chance to See, by Douglas Adams, is a powerful and insightful look at the alarming number of endangered animals and the attempts being made to preserve them.
Seeing the humorous style used by Adams in his fiction works applied to a nonfiction topic is refreshing and enjoyable.
www.amazon.ca /Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0330320025   (2112 words)

  
 BookBag@theLogBook.com | Last Chance To See
Adams relates the experiences of not only seeing these rare forms of life on the edge of extinction, but of the less-glamorous process of finding them, and the even-less-glamorous bureaucratic mazes that had to be navigated in order to begin that process.
The sense of wonder at seeing some of the world's rarest creatures is palpable, as is a growing sense of uneasiness about how humanity is impacting their shrinking environments.
Part of that unease comes from the equation that keeps these animals' refuges operating: their rarity leads to human curiosity,a market springs up to service that curiosity with sighting tours and so on, and that market funds the wildlife operations that preserve the creatures in question.
www.thelogbook.com /read/2006/chance2c.htm   (382 words)

  
 11.14.02 - NASA Prepares For "Last Chance" Meteor Shower
The early morning hours of November 19 may be your last chance to see the spectacular Leonid meteor shower in its full glory, according to astronomers.
Last year, observers did not have to contend with the Moon and saw meteors at a pace of several hundred per hour.
Last year, people in Asia saw the plentiful collisions with that stream.
www.gsfc.nasa.gov /topstory/2002/1114leonid.html   (1485 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Spacewatch Friday: Last Chance to See Bright Comet Ikeya-Zhang
It is now a fourth magnitude object -- easy enough to still see if you have a good dark sky, but more challenging from a city.
The comet has also been sporting a fine tail at least several degrees in length (your fist held out at arms length is roughly equal to ten degrees; the "Pointer Stars" at the end of the bowl of the Big Dipper are just over five degrees apart).
Skies were so dark and clear that he was able to see stars down to seventh magnitude (the threshold of naked eye visibility is considered to be sixth magnitude).
www.space.com /spacewatch/ikeya_zhang_020426.html   (1224 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: NASA Prepares For "Last Chance" Meteor Shower   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Science Daily — The early morning hours of Nov. 19 may be your last chance to see the spectacular Leonid meteor shower in its full glory, according to astronomers.
NASA Prepares For "Last Chance" Meteor Shower (November 15, 2002) -- The early morning hours of Nov. 19 may be your last chance to see the spectacular Leonid meteor shower in its full glory, according to...
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www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/11/021115071029.htm   (2517 words)

  
 Chicagoist: Last Chance To See A Movie at the Esquire Tonight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tonight is the last night you’ll be able to see a movie at the storied Esquire Theater, whose history dates back to the 1930s.
The last movie I saw there was "As Good As It Gets" and the projectionist and a friend talked LOUDLY through the entire film, which could be clearly heard by the back 1/3 of the theater.
The last time I was there with the theater in it’s original condition was in 1984 for the long version of ‘Once Upon a Time in America’, and the place was a stunner (and so was the movie, for that matter).
www.chicagoist.com /archives/2006/09/14/last_chance_to_see_a_movie_at_the_esquire_tonight.php   (733 words)

  
 Endangered Animals : Another Chance To See
In the late 1980s, Douglas Adams, creator of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and broadcaster and zoologist Mark Carwardine travelled around the world, visiting endangered animals, hoping it would not be their "Last Chance To See".
Following last month's post about the Honda F1 'Earth Car' initiative, I made the pledge to replace at least three regular lightbulbs in my house to the more energy efficient kind.
Scroll up a little to the NNW and you'll see a boat with about seven or eight people aboard, and at the south of the image tile you'll also see the tail end of the plane's shadow.
www.anotherchancetosee.com   (1477 words)

  
 Crowd of 800 Gets 'Last Chance to See' Author Douglas Adams - Daily Nexus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thursday night, he came to entertain 800 people in a packed Campbell Hall with his talk, “Parrots, the Universe and Everything.” The talk was based on Adams’s favorite, and least successful, book: Last Chance to See.
“Last Chance to See is completely orphaned from my other books, either off in the travel section or in the natural history section or whatever.”
To write Last Chance to See, Adams traveled the world with zoologist Mark Carwardine, looking for endangered species.
www.dailynexus.com /article.php?a=692   (895 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Douglas Adams et al - Last Chance to See at Epinions.com
In Last Chance to See, you show that you have a true narrative gift, for those who may have doubted it after reading your famous five-book trilogy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
I couldn’t help but think this made Last Chance to See’s point of view a little misleading, because Mark only gets an epilogue near the end - I know this because the whole rest of the book in written in a first-person format, and that person happens to be you.
Your contributions to Last Chance to See are greatly appreciated, and as I can see you were once a Conservation Officer with the World Wildlife Fund, all I have to say is, great job.
www.epinions.com /content_185502502532   (1742 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Last Chance To See Comet Ikeya-Zhang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
To see the comet, look low in the western sky during late evening twilight.
Spitzer Telescope Sees Trail Of Comet Crumbs (May 13, 2006) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has snapped a picture of the bits and pieces making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3, which is continuing to break apart on its periodic journey around the sun.
SOHO Sees Its 750th Comet (April 7, 2004) -- SOHO comet 750 was discovered by the German amateur astronomer Sebastian Honig, one of the most successful SOHO comet-hunters.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2002/04/020402074258.htm   (1589 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Last Chance to See: Books: Douglas Adams,Mark Carwardine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In LAST CHANCE TO SEE, Adams does for the non-fiction natural world what he did for science fiction: he tells an entertaining story that brings each character to vivid life for a reader.
Adams is joined by zoologist Mark Carwardine, as they use their last chance to see a variety of animals on the brink of extinction, such as the Komodo Dragon, the White Rhinos of Zaire, New Zealand kakapos, and Yangtze river dolphins.
Adams, amateur wildlife lover, is wise enough to know the purpose of his journey: to shine some of the glare from his celebrity as a "science-fiction comedy novelist" on the issue of global extinction.
www.amazon.com /Last-Chance-See-Douglas-Adams/dp/0345371984   (1979 words)

  
 Animation Magazine | Last Chance To See Sleeping Beauty
If you live in the L.A. area and haven’t had a chance to see the 70mm widescreen presentation of the restored I print, time is running out.
Sunday is the last day of screenings at the El Capitan Theatre at Hollywood and Highland.
With this rare opportunity to see it as it was meant to be seen, adults and children alike will be captivated by this fairy tale brought to life by the animation pioneers at Disney.
www.animationmagazine.net /article.php?article_id=705   (283 words)

  
 Last Chance To See Halley's Comet, Alaska Science Forum
For most northerners, the middle of December will probably mark the last chance they have to glimpse Halley's Comet.
We'll call the angular separation between the point of your thumb and the tip of your little finger a "hand." By this convention a "finger," of course, is the angle subtended by the width (not length) of a finger with your arm outstretched.
During the weekend of December 14-15, you should be able to pick up the faint glow of the comet with a good pair of binoculars if you look beneath the square of Pegasus at a distance of four or five finger widths below its lower edge.
www.gi.alaska.edu /ScienceForum/ASF7/746.html   (631 words)

  
 Last chance to see the Dixie Chicks for FREE! | Fresno Famous
Last chance to see the Dixie Chicks for FREE!
FRESNO FAMOUS is a website dedicated to cataloging, exploring, and discovering life in Fresno.
The Chicks must be pleased with this week's election results.
www.fresnofamous.com /node/4284   (124 words)

  
 Sports: Sunday may be the last chance to see anything this bad
Sunday may be the last chance to see anything this bad
Sunday is your last chance to see the Mutiny at home this season.
Don't miss this opportunity to say you were in the stands to see Scott Cannon, Jair, Gus Kartes, John Maessner, Albert Munoz, Craig Demmin and Joe Addo.
sptimes.com /News/090501/Sports/Sunday_may_be_the_las.shtml   (601 words)

  
 Austinist: Last Chance to See A Scanner Darkly With Composer Graham Reynolds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Austinist: Last Chance to See A Scanner Darkly With Composer Graham Reynolds
Last Chance to See A Scanner Darkly With Composer Graham Reynolds
Pressured by the score-loving, moviegoing public, the folks over at the Alamo are giving us one last chance to see Richard Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly accompanied by a 30-minute live performance featuring the film’s composer Graham Reynolds.
www.austinist.com /archives/2006/07/22/last_chance_to_see_a_scanner_darkly_with_composer_graham_reynolds.php   (378 words)

  
 Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine : Don't Miss This Chance
Quite possibly, it’s because he was quite good at creating strange alien creatures that no-one is ever likely to see, and no-one really expected him to ever see the aye-aye, the lemur in question.
The result was “Last Chance to See”, quite possibly the best piece of non-fiction writing you may ever come across, and definitely the best book I have ever read about endangered...
www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/last-chance-to-see-douglas-adams-mark-carwardine   (322 words)

  
 BirdForum - Socialble Plover - last chance to see?
A deeply disturbing news item in the latest edition of 'British Birds' (July 2004 p364) reports that the world population may now be as low as 200 pairs.
If correct, this represents a decline of 95% in the last 15 years.
The decline isn't new - in northern Kazakhstan the population fell by 40% between 1930 and 1960 and then halved again between 1960 and 1987.
www.birdforum.net /showthread.php?t=19798   (805 words)

  
 Last chance to see... - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
The Argaty kites project is open year-round and you can see wild kites at a working farm north of Stirling.
Food is put out daily for the kites and they are regularly seen flying in and swooping down to feed on the ground.
See and learn more about red kites and their habitat around Harewood, near Leeds.
www.rspb.org.uk /birds/brilliant/lastchance.asp   (569 words)

  
 karenika - books - last chance to see
The reason for this is that there is nothing to see in the Yangtze.
Most other dolphins have their eyes much lower down the sides of their heads, from where they can see all around them, and below; and this is exactly where you will find the eyes on a young baiji fetus.
If two people in Metafilter hadn't mentioned Last Chance To See I might have missed the chance to read one of the best books ever.
www.karenika.com /book/last_chance.html   (755 words)

  
 Last Chance to See Oscar®-winning Prodcution Designer Exhibiton at Academy
Last Chance to See Oscar®-winning Prodcution Designer Exhibiton at Academy
Beverly Hills, CA - July 9 is the last day for the public to see the pastels, watercolors, actual set pieces and props, photographs and video clips that comprise the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' exhibition of the work of Academy Award
For his work on "What Dreams May Come" (1998), Zanetti was nominated for an Academy Award; he took home an Oscar statuette for art direction for "Restoration" (1995).
www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2000/00.06.28.html   (292 words)

  
 Star Wars: Blogs | Rive's Uncharted Settlements | Last Chance to See
Well, unless you're on the East Coast, in which case you've probably already missed it, Sci-Fi channel is airing the first episode of Firefly tonight (perhaps less than 5 mintues from now depending on where you live!) and I'm somewhat doubt if they'll run the series for a third time after this.
Instead of making this just a "It's good, watch it" blog as a bonus I've written 10 little things that might make Firefly more enjoyable for first time viewers, however if you'd like to watch with a completely clean slate and figure out things as you go along, don't read it.
The war you see at the beginning of the show was between the inner planets consisting of the last two superpowers (United States + China) against the border planets.
blogs.starwars.com /rive/65   (426 words)

  
 gizmag Article: Mercedes SLR300 - last chance to see (and hear)
UPDATED May 29, 2005 The legendary Mille Miglia road race from Brescia to Rome and back started in 1927 and continued until the mid-fifties.
The Mille Miglia has now been revived as a gentlemans rally, and this year Mercedes entered the car in the event for the last time, appropriately driven by Moss and F1 and Le Mans winner Jochen Mass.
See our advertising page for more information and rates.
www.gizmag.com /go/4080   (666 words)

  
 Tomorrow Night is Your Last Chance to See Bolloxed | DarrenBarefoot.com
Tomorrow Night is Your Last Chance to See Bolloxed
If you didn’t get a chance to see the show, come on over to moneyed hills of my youth and check it out.
If you don't see your comment within a day or so, drop me an email.
www.darrenbarefoot.com /archives/2006/09/tomorrow-night-is-your-last-chance-to-see-bolloxed.html   (219 words)

  
 Curiosity Collective » Last Chance to See
Our debut show closes at 9pm tonight, so today is the last chance to come and see us before we shut up shop.
We’ve had a great time over the last few evenings with huge video feedback walls, Van-Der-Graaf generators sucking paint onto canvases, massive shadow-puppetry, and that’s on top of all the fixed exhibition - mime-driven video installations, visual illusions, living inflatables and so on.
See the map of how to get to the exhibition - St-Mary-At-The-Quay, Key St., Ipswich.
cefn.com /curiosity/?p=180   (177 words)

  
 Last chance to see Queen's dresses
Since it opened in December 2001 almost 125,000 people have been to see the exhibition that features 14 of the most dazzling dresses from the personal collection of Her Majesty The Queen.
People and Dress of the 1920s’ is the next special exhibition at the Museum of Costume that opens on Wednesday, December 11 and runs until Tuesday, November 4 2003.
It tells the story of fashion over the last 400 years and is one of the finest museums of fashionable dress in the world.
www.bathnes.gov.uk /press_releases/g-m-releases/last-chance-to-see-queens-dresses.htm   (560 words)

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