New Releases by PETER SCOTT

Discusses polar bears in mythology and as encountered by early arctic explorers, modern attempts to preserve the species, and the polar bear''s characteristics and hunting, feeding, and mating habits.

This explosive book lays bare the personalities and institutional relations behind the headlines. It goes beyond the recent events to discern the roots of contemporary U.S. covert activity within the past two decades. The Iran-Contra Connection delves in to the details of CIA and extra-CIA operations, including drug-trafficking, gun-running, government-toppling, and assassination. The Iran-Contra scandal is not merely a plan gone awry, the authors argue, but a consistent outgrowth of a long tradition of U.S. covert activity- from the Bay of Pigs invasion teams to the NSC organizational team; from the CIA and the World Anti-Communist League to the Israeli connection and the State Department.

Sir Peter Scott has achieved fame as a painter of wildlife, as the founder of the Wildfowl Trust, and as one of the world''s leading conservationists. These spheres of activity reflect a career in which two roles--that of the artist and that of the scientist--have been happily combined. Observations of Wildlife is both a collection of paintings and a self-portrait of the man who created them.

Account of an expedition to study geese of Canadian arctic, especially Ross''s goose (Anser albifrons gambelli).