Travel to Central America

Explore Costa Rica

Format: Paperback
Author: Harry S. Pariser
ReleaseDate: 01 September, 1999
Publisher: Manatee Press
Rating:

The best guide book I've seen
It covers everything for a traveler. This is is the best travel book I have
ever had. I
normally don't even bother purchasing a travel guide because all of the Travel/Adventure guides that I have ever seen have had generic information in them. They have had very little useful information in them. I can't say enough about this authors books. I wish there were more authors out there producing work of this caliber. This book is a must have for anyone traveling to Costa Rica.

One in the hand, two in the bush....

Apparently, singer Jim Croce's widow had spent a couple of years there working and recuperating after her husband's death, and the authors came into her restaurant one day and they ended up trading books with her (she wrote a cookbook, Thyme in a Bottle)!

Well, I looked through The Last Country The Gods Made and ended up buying it on Amazon and it's a FIVE star, compared to Explore Costa Rica. What can I say? I thought this book was above average until I saw one that I liked much better!

I was eating at Croce's Restaurant in Old-Towne San Diego, California, when I saw a book displayed: Costa Rica: The Last Country The Gods Made. Bottom line, the writing's so much more engaging.

GREAT Information; HORRIBLE Typos
I found the information very helpful in planning my trip, including the little sidenotes on what to watch for and dangers on the road. I purchased this book recently for my upcoming trip to Costa Rica because I wanted a different point of view outside of Lonely Planet's guidebook (which, I might add, I also purchased). My biggest mistake, however, was to try and read the book from cover to cover like a novel. There are probably over 250 typos in the first 300 pages alone, ranging from repeated paragraphs to punctuation errors to ommitted words. It can get very frustrating when you are learning about a particular region and the sentence reads, ". . . most notably, this region includes. Further down the road. . . ". I do not know who to blame, Praiser or Manatee Press for letting a book like this out on the market. The credibility of the author and the publishing company are severely weakened by something like this. Buy this book used and skim it. . . your frustration level will be dramatically lowered.

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