Last Chance To See: Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine

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Last Chance To See: Douglas Adams and Mark CarwardineDouglas Adams wrote a story abut a world that was unexpectedly demolished by hideous creatures to make way for a hyperspace bypass. It was meant as a joke. After years of pondering the absurdities of life on other planets, Adams decided to ponder the life on this planet and the absurdities of what we are doing to it, as tree by tree and creature by creature, we demolish the world around us. Since this was a job he was hopelessly unqualified to do, he

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