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Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

Journey into the Costa Rican imagination through twenty-six remarkable stories, selected and organized regionally for the curious traveler. Here, for the first time in English, the best of Costa Rica's writers conjure the country's allure and vitality, its coffee fields and palm groves, cicadas and songbirds, shrouded mountains and blazing savannas, while telling stories unique to Costa Rican life. Contributors include Alfredo Aguilar, Fernando Duran Ayanegui, Alfonso Chase, Quince Duncan, Fabian Dobles, Louis Ducoudray, Carlos Luis Fallas, Mario Gonzales Feo, Joaquin Gutierrez, Carlos Salazar Herrera, Max Jimenez, Carmen Lyra, Carmen Naranjo, Yolanda Oreamuno, Abel Pacheco, Julieta Pinto, Uriel Quesada, Samuel Rovinski, Jose Leon Sanchez, and Rima de Vallbona.

Subject
travel
Setting
Latin America
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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