FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Step Into a World That, Until Now, You've Only Stepped On...

David George Gordon invites you to explore the exciting world of the
cockroach-- from the jungles of Equatorial Africa to the labs of the Raid
Research Institute in Racine, Wisconsin, home to as many as 80,000 roaches
at any one time. It's all part of his new multimedia program, The Compleat
Cockroach: A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Despised (and Least
Understood) Creature on Earth

Based on Gordon's book of the same name, The Compleat Cockroach provides
an unforgettable introduction to the insect we love to loathe:

Cockroach Biology: Where the world's 4,000 roach species live, what they
eat, and why some have chosen to make our homes their homes.

Cockroach Behavior: How roaches sing for their supper, sleep upside down,
and battle each other, plus all the details of their steamy sex lives.

Cockroach Control: Effective strategies for keeping roaches at bay--
starting with the environmentally friendly alternatives and ending with
the atomic bomb!

Cockroach Culture: From Aristophanes to Archy, Kafka's The Metamorphosis
to MTV-- the rich legacy of roaches in song, dance, and contemporary
cuisine.

The Compleat Cockroach program springs to life with color slides, video
clips, and other treasures from the author's sizeable trove of
cockroach-abilia. Over the course of an hour, audience members are treated
to:

A day at Roachhill Downs and the annual roach races at Purdue University.

An official tour of the Cockroach Hall of Fame

A close encounter with the world's biggest cockroach

Music and steps to the fabulous Roach Dance

Profiles of prominent cockroaches-- stowaways on Spanish galleons,
hitchhikers aboard Apollo XII, inhabitants of forests, fields, Congress,
kitchens, and baths.

David George Gordon is the author of ten books on North American wildlife.
(The New York Times called his Field Guide to the Slug "gripping.") He has
entertained audiences throughout the Northwest, extolling the virtues of
such exotic fauna as Bigfoot, the banana slug, and the world's largest
burrowing bivalve-- the geoduck clam. With the release of his new book for
Ten Speed Press in Berkeley, California, he is now taking The Compleat
Cockroach show on the road!

To schedule an appearance and book-signing for your institution, contact
Limelight Productions, 923 Washington Street, Port Townsend, Washington,
98368  (360) 385-6055. Or call David George Gordon at (360) 385-5063
(e-mail: [log in to unmask]).

To purchase a copy of the Compleat Cockroach, contact your local
bookseller. Or order directly from Ten Speed Press, P.O. Box 7123,
Berkeley, California 94707; telephone (510) 559-1600. For credit card
orders, call (800) 841-BOOK. The book is priced at $11.95.