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

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In the 1950s, Darryl Cole-Christensen and his circle of relatives were a number of 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 eternally closed to the general public in Western, urbanized society.

With the perspective of more than forty years’ place of abode 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 right through the ecosystem as they cut the rain forest down. Writing neither to say sorry for nor to defend their actions, he as an alternative 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 can be 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 each and 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.”

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