Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy

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Great idea, poor execution

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Can't Put It Down!

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Highly recommended for the "24" crowd...

Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy
Lindsay Moran
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Binding: Hardcover
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In Lindsay Moran's Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy, the author comes across is an amusingly candid cross between Bridget Jones and James Bond, with a little Gloria Steinem thrown in to remind readers of the inherent sexism that runs rampant both in the US government and abroad. Moran, a few years out of Harvard and fresh from a Fulbright scholarship in Bulgaria, decides to follow her childhood dream of becoming and spy and, after a grueling interview process that involves several polygraphs and an abandoned foreign boyfriend, goes to work for the CIA. What follows is a surprisingly honest behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to become a real-life CIA agent, signal-sites and all.

Yet more than an insider's guide to the life and times of an undercover agent, Blowing My Cover is a story about a highly educated, obviously intelligent yet occasionally insecure young woman trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and who she wants to have beside her. As we follow Moran to the "Farm", a six-month training camp where new recruits are forced into alarmingly real POW situations and asked to perform death-defying car chases reminiscent of old Dukes of Hazard episodes, we also witness her extreme loneliness at being cut off from her friends and family and her fear that she'll never meet "the one" and settle down. One of the most poignant scenes happens early on in Moran's training, when she meets up with some friends in New York at a party and realizes she can't even tell her closest confidents what she does for a living.

For anyone who's ever wondered what it really means to be a CIA agent, Moran's tale is a worthwhile read. Better yet, for anyone who's ever wondered what she wants to be when she grows up (even at age 30), Blowing My Cover is an ultimately hopeful story of possibilities. --Gisele Toueg

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A clever, funny memoir from a young woman who fulfills her Mission: Impossible dreams by joining the CIA, only to discover that the life of a spy is not at all what she expected.

Lindsay Moran was a bright-eyed, idealistic Harvard graduate who hoped to serve her patriotic duty while living a life she'd first dreamed of as a child watching James Bond movies and reading Harriet the Spy. After applying to the CIA and passing lie detector tests, background investigations, and psychological screenings, she soon found herself in training at the Farm, learning how to crash cars through barriers at a hundred miles an hour, not to mention how to withstand interrogation.

But she was simultaneously learning that the life of a spy wasn't nearly the glamorous-not to mention principled-job she thought it would be. Her first posting, to Macedonia, confirmed it, as she witnessed firsthand the culture inside an organization whose intelligence failures led to tragic results during her own tenure. With a true story both thoughtful and funny, a wonderful new talent pulls open the doors to the CIA.

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Great idea, poor execution.......2007-09-13

I was very excited to read this book, and I did learn some interesting things about the workings of the CIA. As complete outsider, I knew very little about the recruitment process and training, and I appreciated Moran's descriptions. However, her personality was so repellent and her writing so juvenile that I had a difficult time focusing on the message.

As a 20-something who has spent several years working and studying abroad, I am sorry to report that Moran's attitudes and lifestyle are pretty characteristic of young expatriates. Moran constantly references her altruistic motivations, yet she constantly belittles and berates almost everyone she comes in contact with. How can she be as open minded as she claims to be when she feels comfortable generalizing about groups of people such as Mormons? She describes herself as cultured and educated, yet her biggest extra-curricular interests are partying and sleeping with unkempt drug abusers. Why does she like being someone's meal ticket?

After reading this book, there are some questions that I would like to ask the author:

Have you ever dated someone with stable employment?
Aren't you a little old for recreational drug use?
Did you use the GRE vocab list to randomly pick words that you obviously don't know how to use?
After reading your memoir/hagiography, why was I so surprised to see how unattractive you really are? I know that is irrelevant, but it does make me question her grip on reality. How scary are these foreign operatives if they want to hook up with that??

I admit that this review probably wasn't very mature, but I'm way younger than Moran, so at least I have an excuse!

Career in the CIA.......2007-07-23

If you are considering a career in the CIA this is a great book. It gives a realistic view of the apllication process, training and daily work life of a CIA spy. It gives you a good look at what life is like for a CIA case officer.

Can't Put It Down!.......2007-07-12

I'm amazed by some of the reviewers and how hard they are on this book. Contrary to what other reviewers have said, I found the book thoroughly enjoyable. I also didn't think Lindsay Moran tooted her own horn much. Are people jealous she went to Harvard, got into the CIA pretty easily and graduated at the top of her class? Sounds like it to me. She worked hard and it shows. I loved her self depreciating humor and laughed out loud several times at stories she told. I fell in love with her and sympathized in her struggle working for the CIA. She's also one heck of a writer grammatically! And if you call niave thinking how she thought the CIA was going to be, then I'm niave too because that's how I thought it was also...until I read this. I wish more reads were this effortless and fun for me. I can't wait until this spitfire comes out with another book!

Negative reviewers betray their own insecurities.......2007-06-06

Like many here I read the book in one sitting and found it a fascinating "alternative" view of life in the CIA. Unlike others here, I found her writing to be candid and engrossing. I think many of the negative comments posted reveal more about the poster than the novel.

"Her prose was riddled with fake self-deprecation that was meant to cover up a smug attitude."
"It was no wonder she didn't get very far in her clandestine career."
"Her elitist Harvard attitude"
"Moran constantly reminds readers that she went to Harvard"
"She also thinks she is better than everyone else because she has her Ivy League Rich Kid Harvard Degree."
"earnest twenty-something assurance that she knows best about everything"

She's a Harvard graduate, traveled the world on scholarship, speaks Bulgarian, was hired by the CIA and now makes a living as a professional writer - maybe she's not being "smug," maybe she's just cooler than you?

"Moran isn't exactly monopolizing the universe's supermodel genes"

Yes, that is certainly a wonderful reason to pan the book. Because of course, every CIA agent has the chiseled profile of a Hollywood movie star.

"to sleep with as many foreigners as possible"

As Moran discusses in the book, no one seems to care who the male agents sleep with (even with prostitutes and transvestites) - just as long as there is no "ongoing relationship." Interesting that the reviewers also perpetuate this hypocrisy.

"The damage to morale, if not security, done by this book to serving members of the intelligence community is far greater than any passing enjoyment it may provide to the pre-teen "chick lit" fan club."
"having written a book so wholly uncomplimentary about the brave men and women who actually do the important work which she was so manifestly unsuited for."
"Moran spent 5 years with CIA, with maybe 50% of that time in training. She was only on 1 overseas tour."

I think this is the crux of their discontent, Moran describes a CIA comprised of real human beings with real human frailties, not an endless series of James Bond and Jack Bauer clones. If you want to read what is essentially a young woman's journal of her years in the CIA, then you should read this book. If you want to experience a cartoon full of fictional two dimensional cardboard cut-outs then pick up the latest Tom Clancy potboiler or go catch up on those missed episodes of 24 on DVD.

Highly recommended for the "24" crowd... .......2007-04-14

Highly recommended for the crowd who forgets "24" is just a television show. Quick, easy read, informative, entertaining, and based on my experience, smacks of authenticity.

1. The book details Moran's entry into the CIA, the training required, and her subsequent assignment to the Balkans shortly before 9/11. If you're interested in the subject, her description about the initial training is fascinating. Also, I've been to the Balkans, and her descriptions of both the place and the people are spot-on.

2. Some are easily seduced by the acronym "CIA" and forget it's another large, bureaucratic organization doing the best they can, with what they have, not immune from petty politics, careerism, lack of competence, and wrong headed ideologues.

3. Obviously Moran struck a nerve with this book. If her tone is sometimes sarcastic or whiny, it's an anecdote to blowhards like Clancy-the truth is somewhere in-between for the reality based community. It's wrong to question her patriotism or her committment. To survive, organizations need creative types-those who can think outside of the box, who defy conventions, people who aren't afraid to say "the emperor has no clothes."

4. After 9/11, we entered a new era. We can adjust to those changes or continue business as usual. Sometimes you need stone throwers like Moran to force us to question the way we are doing business so we can make the necessary changes required to defeat a new enemy.

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Blowing My Cover: My Life As A Cia Spy
Lindsay Moran
Manufacturer: Putnam Pub Group
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Binding: Hardcover
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1909. The story of the leader of the most savage fighting unit in the Civil War. Quantrill, outside of the heads of government, was the most widely known man connected with the Civil War. His place in the public estimation of the South was based upon a misapprehension of his life and motives. He voluntarily imposed himself on the South. He told little of his prior life, and that which he did tell was wholly untrue. It is due to the South that his life be revealed as it actually was. This is not designed to be Life of Quantrill, but an account of those incidents of the Border Wars in which he and his men were leading characters. Partial Contents: The Quantrill Family; Early Life of Quantrill; From Ohio to Kansas; Quantrill in Kansas and Utah; Quantrill as a Kansas Teacher; Quantrill as Charley Hart-Lawrence; Quantrill as Charley Hart-The Traitor-The Morgan Walker Raid; Quantrill the Forsworn-What He Told the Missourians; Aftermath of the Morgan Walker Raid; Quantrill's Return to Kansas; Quantrill Becomes a Guerrilla; Quantrill Becomes Notorious; Quantrill Outlawed; The Lawrence Massacre; Quantrill in the Summer of 1864; and The Last Battle.

Quantrill: Man and myth an examination of W.E. Connelley's historianship (The Trail guide)

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Quantrill: Man and myth an examination of W.E. Connelley's historianship (The Trail guide)
Martin E Ismert
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The rhyme of the border war: A historical poem of the Kansas-Missouri guerrilla war, before and during the late rebellion, the principal character being the famous guerrilla, Charles William Quantrell

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The rhyme of the border war: A historical poem of the Kansas-Missouri guerrilla war, before and during the late rebellion, the principal character being the famous guerrilla, Charles William Quantrell
Thomas Brower Peacock
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Charles W. Quantrell : A True History of His Guerilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border During the Civil War of 1861 to 1865 : As Told By Captain Harrison Trow

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Charles W. Quantrell : A True History of His Guerilla Warfare on the Missouri and Kansas Border During the Civil War of 1861 to 1865 : As Told By Captain Harrison Trow
J. P. Burch
Manufacturer: Privately Published
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000FPFAD2

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Red Cloth on boards with gold lettering on cover and spine. Oval impression of Quantrell in center front cover. Very good condition for it's age.

Poems of the plains and songs of the solitudes: Together with "The rhyme of the border war"

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Poems of the plains and songs of the solitudes: Together with "The rhyme of the border war"
Thomas Brower Peacock
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Quantrill and the Border Wars
William Elsey Connelley
Manufacturer: Pageant Book Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MZADEG

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Includes seven maps and many small b&w illustrations, a frontis portrait plate and a photo plate. This was originally published in 1909. This edition has an entertaining introduction by Homer Croy with information on the author. 9.25 inches tall, 542 pages, index.

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Quantrill and the Border Wars
Wiliam Elsey Connelley
Manufacturer: Pageant Book Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NWCH7E

QUANTRILL AND THE BORDER WARS:His Raiders burned and pillaged Towns Loyal to the Union along the Missouri - Kansas Border.

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QUANTRILL AND THE BORDER WARS:His Raiders burned and pillaged Towns Loyal to the Union along the Missouri - Kansas Border.

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In The Threatening Storm, Kenneth M. Pollack, one of the world’s leading experts on Iraq, provides a masterly insider’s perspective on the crucial issues facing the United States as it moves toward a new confrontation with Saddam Hussein.

For the past fifteen years, as an analyst on Iraq for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, Kenneth Pollack has studied Saddam as closely as anyone else in the United States. In 1990, he was one of only three CIA analysts to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. As the principal author of the CIA’s history of Iraqi military strategy and operations during the Gulf War, Pollack gained rare insight into the methods and workings of what he believes to be the most brutal regime since Stalinist Russia.

Examining all sides of the debate and bringing a keen eye to the military and geopolitical forces at work, Pollack ultimately comes to this controversial conclusion: through our own mistakes, the perfidy of others, and Saddam’s cunning, the United States is left with few good policy options regarding Iraq. Increasingly, the option that makes the most sense is for the United States to launch a full-scale invasion, eradicate Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, and rebuild Iraq as a prosperous and stable society—for the good of the United States, the Iraqi people, and the entire region.

Pollack believed for many years that the United States could prevent Saddam from threatening the stability of the Persian Gulf and the world through containment—a combination of sanctions and limited military operations. Here, Pollack explains why containment is no longer effective, and why other policies intended to deter Saddam ultimately pose a greater risk than confronting him now, before he gains possession of nuclear weapons and returns to his stated goal of dominating the Gulf region. “It is often said that war should be employed only in the last resort,” Pollack writes. “I reluctantly believe that in the case of the threat from Iraq, we have come to the last resort.”

Offering a view of the region that has the authority and force of an intelligence report, Pollack outlines what the leaders of neighboring Arab countries are thinking, what is necessary to gain their support for an invasion, how a successful U.S. operation would be mounted, what the likely costs would be, and how Saddam might react. He examines the state of Iraq today—its economy, its armed forces, its political system, the status of its weapons of mass destruction as best we understand them, and the terrifying security apparatus that keeps Saddam in power. Pollack also analyzes the last twenty years of relations between the United States and Iraq to explain how the two countries reached the unhappy standoff that currently prevails.

Commanding in its insights and full of detailed information about how leaders on both sides will make their decisions, The Threatening Storm is an essential guide to understanding what may be the crucial foreign policy challenge of our time.

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In The Threatening Storm, Kenneth M. Pollack, one of the world's leading experts on Iraq, provides a masterly insider's perspective on the crucial issues facing the United States as it moves toward a new confrontation with Saddam Hussein.

For the past fifteen years, as an analyst on Iraq for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Council, Kenneth Pollack has studied Saddam as closely as anyone else in the United States. In 1990, he was one of only three CIA analysts to predict the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. As the principal author of the CIA's history of Iraqi military strategy and operations during the Gulf War, Pollack gained rare insight into the methods and workings of what he believes to be the most brutal regime since Stalinist Russia.

Examining all sides of the debate and bringing a keen eye to the military and geopolitical forces at work, Pollack ultimately comes to this controversial conclusion: through our own mistakes, the perfidy of others, and Saddam's cunning, the United States is left with few good policy options regarding Iraq. Increasingly, the option that makes the most sense is for the United States to launch a full-scale invasion, eradicate Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, and rebuild Iraq as a prosperous and stable society—for the good of the United States, the Iraqi people, and the entire region.

Pollack believed for many years that the United States could prevent Saddam from threatening the stability of the Persian Gulf and the world through containment—a combination of sanctions and limited military operations. Here, Pollack explains why containment is no longer effective, and why other policies intended to deter Saddam ultimately pose a greater risk than confronting him now, before he gains possession of nuclear weapons and returns to his stated goal of dominating the Gulf region. "It is often said that war should be employed only in the last resort," Pollack writes. "I reluctantly believe that in the case of the threat from Iraq, we have come to the last resort."

Offering a view of the region that has the authority and force of an intelligence report, Pollack outlines what the leaders of neighboring Arab countries are thinking, what is necessary to gain their support for an invasion, how a successful U.S. operation would be mounted, what the likely costs would be, and how Saddam might react. He examines the state of Iraq today—its economy, its armed forces, its political system, the status of its weapons of mass destruction as best we understand them, and the terrifying security apparatus that keeps Saddam in power. Pollack also analyzes the last twenty years of relations between the United States and Iraq to explain how the two countries reached the unhappy standoff that currently prevails.

Commanding in its insights and full of detailed information about how leaders on both sides will make their decisions, The Threatening Storm is an essential guide to understanding what may be the crucial foreign policy challenge of our time.

Customer Reviews:

OOPS!.......2007-05-06

Well Ken, guess you kind of blew it huh? Looking at the pathetic reviews here from 2002 I have to wonder do any of you feel any guilt? Even just a little? Well "Dubya" followed the advice of this book and now he and Kenny-boy have the blood of over 3000 Americans on their hands. And now this clown has a book about Iran! In the words of a REAL Republican president: There you go again.

In view of what we know now, in 2007..........2007-01-14

...this book on the face of it has done serious harm. That's all I have to say.

The truth about Iraq.......2006-05-22

Although some of the reviewers have applied descriptors such as "debunked" or "false," Pollack's book is an important study of the situation in Iraq prior to the 2003 invasion. Critics of the war should read this to gain a greater understanding of what kind of threat really did exist (and check the footnotes if you remain skeptical), and hardcore supporters should read this book to understand better the premise as well. By criticizing people on the Right and Left, while also singing their praises at times, Pollack weaves a fair account of the political situation surrounding Saddam Hussein, and the finished product is a well-crafted argument for removing a tyrant in the Middle East. The staunchest war hawks will even find new information that alters their opinion and handling of the war and aftermath.

Although some of his beliefs turned out to be incorrect (such as his belief that France, even while supporting Saddam Hussein, could be brought into the coalition to invade), his larger argument remains true: Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the international community, and his repeated defiance of international laws and restrictions validates the Bush administration's argument that he could not be trusted.

Pollack's most convincing argument comes in his description of Saddam's chemical and biological weapons programs. By pointing out how easily it is to mask their development in civilian research centers, coupled with the evidence of Saddam's usage of these agents, Pollack shows that just because coalition forces did not find WMDs does not mean that Saddam never had them or used them in the past.

A person who reads this book cover to cover will come away with a different opinion of the entire situation, for better or worse.

An Invitation to War.......2005-12-08

This is a polished proposal for the invasion of Iraq. It was highly praised in 2002. In retrospect, it was a bit too candid:

"Assembling a coalition would be infinitely easier if the United States could point to a smoking gun with Iraqi fingerprints on it -- some new Iraqi outrage that would serve to galvanize international opinion and create a pretext for invasion. Saddam's pursuit of nuclear weapons is the real reason for invading, but because estimates vary widely on how long it will take for Iraq to do so, and because some countries simply assert Iraq is not doing so and dismiss all of the evidence to the contrary, that may not appear to be an imminent enough threat to justify the march to war, especially for those countries (such as France, Russia, and Turkey) which do not want to see Saddam overthrown."

No doubt Feith and Wumser in the Office of Special Plans took this to heart ("Within a very short period of time, they began to find links that nobody else had previously understood or recorded in a useful way" - Richard Perle, PBS Frontline Oct 2003). Niger yellowcake, Al Qaeda ties, aluminum tubes, unmanned drones, mobile bio-labs, plagiarized studies, and "smoking gun in the form of mushroom cloud" followed. All were needed to create "outrage" to sell invasion.

The lies are now blissfully forgotten, and felonious collaborator Chalibi firmly controls the Oil Ministry. Most countries failed to buy the sales pitch (maybe they didn't want to see international law overthrown: they were right about the threat).

Is this important? Reinhard Heydrich was tasked to provide an incident on the German-Polish border to justify invasion in 1939. His `attack' on a Gleiwitz radio station (`Operation Himmler') murdered KZ prisoners in Polish uniforms to provide a `smoking gun.'

This book, and the invasion it helped engender, became illegal when it's claims (WMD, etc) failed to materialize post invasion. It can not, and should not, so easily be excused as `faulty intelligence.' It was then (and remains) an invitation to aggressive war.

"Any resort to war - to any kind of war - is a resort to means that are inherently criminal. War inevitably is a course of killings, assaults, deprivations of liberty, and destruction of property. An honestly defensive war is, of course, legal, and saves those conducting it from criminality. But inherently criminal acts cannot be defended by showing that those who committed them were engaged in a war, when war itself is illegal." -Justice Robert H. Jackson; Nüremberg 1945.

The author is worth reading (I enjoyed this book in 2002, but wasn't convinced). His proposition was then (given the inspections option), and is now, as illegal as crimes prosecuted at Nüremberg. He has since has moved on to targeting Iran.

Meanwhile, American firms feast on Iraqi oil and no-bid reconstruction. Four years after 9/11, Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar remain at large.

No forgiveness for you, Pollack.......2004-09-04

The passage of time has been devastating for this book, and the analysis of its author. While it could be argued that the removal of Saddam was certainly a plus for the people of Iraq, it was inconsequential on any geopolitical level. As was clear to anyone who properly studied the issue before the war, Iraq circa 2003 was no longer a threat to its neighbors, and now after the war this fact becomes doubly obvious. Those who had experience in Iraq, and specific knowlege of Iraq's weapons capabilities (Scott Ritter, the IAEA, Hans Blix, David Albright) were pretty uniform in their assessment that Iraq of 2003 was simply not the threat Pollack claimed.

Now that we can easily see firsthand the shattered infrastructure of Iraq, its depleted military, its decimated defenses and economy, it is clear that containment had worked--only too well, in many cases. The absurdity of Bush's--and Pollack's--claims have been laid bare.

The fact that Mr. Pollack essentially assisted Bush in making a case for an unwarranted, baseless pre-emptive attack and occupation on a defenseless, non-threatening nation is inexcusable. This level of appeasment is tantamount to a modern-day Chamberlain. Pollack is not, and should not, be forgiven. All those who supported this war, freely sacrificing our troops to this unworthy cause, bear a horrible scarlet letter. The blood of our troops is absolutely on Pollack's hands, as it is on any who supported this war.

Any evaluation on the pros and cons of the war must conclude that this has been a net loss for America, and the world. While undoubtedly an improvement for Iraqi citizens, it has made the world at large more dangerous, and America in particular more open to pre-emptive attack. The rationale of pre-emption is now a reality, waiting to strike America, or other nations, at an opportune moment. The overall geopolitical consequences of the Iraq War are devastating for America, and we now face a much larger conflict with the Muslim world than we ever did before. Sixty-year alliances are now shattered, and America is distrusted--for what? A free Iraqi soccor team?

I agree with a previous reviewer--this book should remain in print solely as a warning to future generations. When otherwise responsible, progressive intellectuals get into bed with thuggish warmongers, the results are disastrous. I now know what it was like in Germany during the 30's.

The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq

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The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq
Kenneth M. Pollack
Manufacturer: Random House
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OXIX84

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A comprehensive ornithological guide introducing both visitors and residents to the bird life of the Bahamas Archipelago and the neighbouring Turks and Caicos Islands. The text contains colour photos and information on the breeding birds of the region plus the most commonly recorded migrants that either pass through on their way to other destinations or stay during the winter season. The author has divided the birds into two sections, land and water. Not every bird that has been recorded in the region is included but emphasis is on how to recognize or identify the various species and their plumages plus information on how the birds are distributed in the islands and whether or not they are common, uncommon or rare. Behaviour and habitat preferences are covered as well as calls and songs.

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Invaluable reference for a trip to the Bahamas

A Birder's Guide to the Bahama Islands
Anthony W. White
Manufacturer: American Birding Association
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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Birds of the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands (Caribbean Pocket Natural History)

ASIN: 1878788167

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Invaluable reference for a trip to the Bahamas.......2001-05-17

DO NOT go to the Bahamas without this book if you are an ornithophile! It covers not only Grand Bahama and New Providence, but virtually all of the inhabited Out Islands. Each chapter offers various suggestions for birding trips and covers all reported hot spots and species. This is NOT a field guide, however, you will also want to take along the Bond/Peterson guide to birds of the West Indies, and I recommend a North American field guide as well, though you could get along without that if you take good notes (some species will not show up in either of the other two books).

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The Birds Of The Turks & Caicos Islands

Manufacturer: Turks & Caicos National Trust
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 9769507903

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"The essential guide to the birds, butterflies, and other inhabitants which make the Turks & Caicos Islands beautiful by nature." Lavishly illustrated with color photographs.

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