The goal in writing this unique book is to help educate and protect you; to provide you with objective information from proven experts so that when you buy Costa Rica real estate, it's not just a wonderful home but also a very profitable investment.
Author: Scott Oliver
Paperback:
217 pages
Company: Consultores Britanicos S.A.
(2005-05)
ISBN: 1413491022 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $14.95 Used Price: $11.50
This book studies the changing social relations in a region of Costa Rica that does not conform to the country’s image as an “agrarian democracy” and investigates why latifundios (large unproductive or under-utilized estates) still dominate much of Latin America.
Author: Marc Edelman
Hardcover:
496 pages
Company: Stanford University Press
(1992-12-01)
ISBN: 0804720444 List Price: $77.95 Amazon Price: $77.92 Used Price: $17.63
In the 1950s, Darryl Cole-Christensen and his family were among the first settlers of the Coto Brus, an almost impenetrable, mountainous rain forest region of southeastern Costa Rica. In this evocative book, he captures the elemental struggles and rewards of settling a new frontier--an experience forever closed to most people in Western, urbanized society. With the perspective of more than forty years' residence in the Coto Brus, Cole-Christensen ably describes both the settlers' dreams of bringing civilization and progress to the rain forest and the sweeping and irreversible changes they caused throughout the ecosystem as they cut the rain forest down. Writing neither to apologize for nor to defend their actions, he instead illuminates the personal and subjective factors that cause people to risk danger and hardship for the uncertain rewards of settling a frontier. In his own words, Cole-Christensen says, "This is a book for the scientist who wants to recapture a sense of an incalculable world departed, for the student who asks: How is it that our forebears changed and restructured this land? For the adventurer who dreams of the expanse of frontiers, for every person who, having passed once through the darkening forest along a path in twilit stillness looks back to find that a blanket of murmurs remains."
Author: Darryl Cole Christensen
Paperback:
253 pages
Company: University of Texas Press
(1997)
ISBN: 0292711913 List Price: $14.95 Amazon Price: $8.94 Used Price: $0.62
The goal in writing this unique book is to help educate and protect you; to provide you with objective information from proven experts so that when you buy Costa Rica real estate, it's not just a wonderful home but also a very profitable investment.
In the 1950s, Darryl Cole-Christensen and his family were among the first settlers of the Coto Brus, an almost impenetrable, mountainous rain forest region of southeastern Costa Rica. In this evocative book, he captures the elemental struggles and rewards of settling a new frontier--an experience forever closed to most people in Western, urbanized society. With the perspective of more than forty years' residence in the Coto Brus, Cole-Christensen ably describes both the settlers' dreams of bringing civilization and progress to the rain forest and the sweeping and irreversible changes they caused throughout the ecosystem as they cut the rain forest down. Writing neither to apologize for nor to defend their actions, he instead illuminates the personal and subjective factors that cause people to risk danger and hardship for the uncertain rewards of settling a frontier. In his own words, Cole-Christensen says, "This is a book for the scientist who wants to recapture a sense of an incalculable world departed, for the student who asks: How is it that our forebears changed and restructured this land? For the adventurer who dreams of the expanse of frontiers, for every person who, having passed once through the darkening forest along a path in twilit stillness looks back to find that a blanket of murmurs remains."