Last Chance to See
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Mark Carwardine. Last Chance to See
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For Douglas Adams.
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We’d offer him a beer and he’d say something like ‘Why don’t they call the beer “Dwarf Manatee Beer” instead of “Brahma Beer”?’ We’d invite him to join us for dinner on the boat and, quick as a flash, he’d say ‘We could watch my video of dwarf manatees while we’re eating.’
The Dutchman had been studying wildlife in the Amazon for decades, partly because he liked animals and partly because he was on the run. When we briefly managed to change the subject from dwarf manatees, with the help of a large jug of caipirinha, he told us hair-raising stories of warrants for his arrest issued by both the Brazilian and Dutch governments. He never satisfactorily explained exactly what he was supposed to have done, but it sounded serious.
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