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A place in the rain forest : settling the Costa Rican frontier / by Darryl Cole-Christensen.
LIBRA HD350.C68 C65 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cole-Christensen, Darryl, 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land settlement--Costa Rica--Coto Brus (Canton)--History.
- Land settlement.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Costa Rica--Coto Brus (Canton).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- History.
- Costa Rica--Coto Brus (Canton).
- Physical Description:
- viii, 243 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 0292711905
- 0292711913
- OCLC:
- 35096035
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