A Place in the Rain Forest : Settling the Costa Rican Frontier

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Summary: This is a deep, thought provoking and wonderful book.
Review: A Place in the Rain Forest is not only the story of an adventure, but a journey of the spirit. I found myself listening to the sound of the rain falling in an untouched wilderness and walking with bare foot peasants as they came to settle a new land. Cole-Christensen had a tremendous insight to the character of the land,the people who live on it, and the consequences of their actions. It is a story for any one who has ever wondered what it would be like to go to a wilderness and become a settler.....

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Summary: Apology
Review: It is beautifully written--- the writer must also be a poet. The evocation of the forest, the air and the rain, the sweating labor of the horses and the men, the mud, all was done very well. The fine language combined with the author's humility made this an unusual book to come out of a backwoods experience. It is about farming on the frontier but it is also very much about his own growth!

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Summary: Evocation of the Rainforest
Review: It is beautifully written--- the writer must also be a poet. The evocation of the forest, the air and the rain, the sweating labor of the horses and the men, the mud, all was done very well. The fine language combined with the author's humility made this an unusual book to come out of a backwoods experience. It is about farming on the frontier but it is also very much about his own growth!

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Summary: Apology
Review: This book is a waste of the readers time and money. Christensen travels to the Costa Rican rain forest with his family to settle the "frontier". He never gives an explinatoin as to why he decided to travel to the "frontier", only excuses and apologies to his many, many mistakes. Darryl Cole-Christensen hates the rainforest, he hated it from the day he arrived and he hates it to this day. His only interest in the rainforest is monetary, money drives this man and this book. I had to buy and read this book for my college course, you have a choice.

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Summary: Apology
Review: This book is a waste of the readers time and money. Christensen travels to the Costa Rican rain forest with his family to settle the "frontier". He never gives an explinatoin as to why he decided to travel to the "frontier", only excuses and apologies to his many, many mistakes. Darryl Cole-Christensen hates the rainforest, he hated it from the day he arrived and he hates it to this day. His only interest in the rainforest is monetary, money drives this man and this book. I had to buy and read this book for my college course, you have a choice.

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Summary: This is the story of the settling of Coto Brus.
Review: We, who came to the unexplored region of the highland rain forest in Costa Rica, did so as adventurers. Our discovery revealed that beyond the limits of the unknown land was a realm we might never come to disclose. We thought we saw a moment of gradeur in our progress toward a time beyond the purview of our blade, that moment became in the fallen forest the hour of searching in our passage to understand the secrete we had inveighed. In this book I tell the story of how a group of settlers opened one of the last frontiers for farmers on the unexplored lands. This was a quest to build homes and make a way of life imbued with remarkable freedom of expression. The story is of challenge in meeting the adversity of a tropic wilderness and of how the rain forest, having retreated, returned in principle to lay out its mandate for our contemporary values in the management and preservation of environment. It is also a record of the Costa Rican settler who planted the flowing garment of coffee over the face of Coto Brus.