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Title: Insight Guide Costa Rica (Costa Rica, 1999) by Paul Murphy, Insight Guides ISBN: 0-88729-137-6 Publisher: Insight Guides Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: disappointing and unhelpful...
Comment: ...i lugged this around and liked, at first, looking at the pics -- however this book is not comprehensive in the least to the even slightly curious and adventuresome traveler. this is a tourist guide, not a travelling guide. fyi!
Rating: 5
Summary: very good guidance - like Rick Steves
Comment: Although I find the large Insight Guides to be useless, the pocket guides have worked VERY well for me in Morocco and in Costa Rica. By being condensed, they choose very interesting itinaries for you.
Rating: 5
Summary: Comprehensive and thorough with great photos
Comment: Vacation photos are the ubiquitous, clichéd chronicle of the average person's travels. Yet few travel books include more than a small smattering of so-so photos, offering only a peek at a destination's sights and environs; even though a great deal of our travel memories and experiences are through images. This book, along with the Insight Guides series in general, is different, offering a comprehensive set of fantastic photos that not only showcase the sights, but bring the details, richness, and life (some gorgeous, some gritty) of Costa Rica closer.
The accompanying text, while a bit uncharacteristic (likely due to editorial consistency), is informative and comprehensive, giving you a great overview of Costa Rica, its history, its people, and places of interest. Its travel information, such as lodgings, appears targeted towards middle-class travelers, although it touches on a wide range of styles and budgets. And when you're ready to plan your itinerary the maps outshine those of any other guide book, and are good enough to use on your trip, even for 90% of the driving most folks are likely to do.
Other guidebooks might offer more in-depth and "insider" information with a particular slant (e.g. the excellent, down-to-earth, and environmentally conscious book by Harry S. Pariser, "Explore Costa Rica") but the Insight Guide should be the first one you buy to "see" where your travels might take you.
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Title: Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Barbara Ras, Oscar Arias ISBN: 1883513006 Publisher: Whereabouts Press Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Costa Rica (LONELY PLANET COSTA RICA) by Rob Rachowiecki ISBN: 1740591186 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Costa Rican Wildlife by James Kavanagh ISBN: 1583550739 Publisher: Waterford Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Costa Rica Spanish Phrasebook (Phrasebooks) by Thomas B. Kohnstamm ISBN: 1864501057 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Insight Map Costa Rica: Fleximap Plus Travel Information by American Map Corporation ISBN: 0841620857 Publisher: American Map Company Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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