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Costa Rican "Oddacy": A New Life On Foreign Shores
EN USISBN: 0965990508 bzw. 9780965990509, in Englisch, Land of AZ Press, gebraucht.
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politics and social sciences,science and math,social science,social sciences,travel, Costa Rican "Oddacy" : A New Life on Foreign Shores, Adults don't always do rational things . . . like staying in familiar territory. Some take action, follow a dream and move to a foreign land. Costa Rica. Naive to the thought that they might receive much more than they bargained for. Lee Knight's Costa Rican "Oddacy" depicts shifting scenes of values, habits and culture, and the desire to understand the people. During the author's four and a half years among the Costa Ricans on an isolated Pacific shore, each day is a new experience. Life in the midst of the natives is charged with bizarre events; visits by tribes of monkeys, crocodiles, alligators, huge sea turtles, or a whale shark, are interspersed by the arrival of neighbors bringing a few crackers to go with the coke they know awaits them, or the annual call of the social service medic to deliver tetanus shots. A trip to the nearest town becomes an adventure. A trip to the capital, San Jose, becomes a pleasure and a challenge. As the "gringos" learn what'! s important in life to a foreign people, their perspectives change to fit their new surroundings. Roughing it in a primative world means more than no hot water. It means no plumbing at all. Living in a simple dwelling, whose walls are painted inside and out, is a far cry from the unpainted houses of the average farmer/fisher folk whose floor are often dirt, not wood. Yet friendship is offered -- open and given freely to the newcomers who struggle to use a strange language and different custo.
politics and social sciences,science and math,social science,social sciences,travel, Costa Rican "Oddacy" : A New Life on Foreign Shores, Adults don't always do rational things . . . like staying in familiar territory. Some take action, follow a dream and move to a foreign land. Costa Rica. Naive to the thought that they might receive much more than they bargained for. Lee Knight's Costa Rican "Oddacy" depicts shifting scenes of values, habits and culture, and the desire to understand the people. During the author's four and a half years among the Costa Ricans on an isolated Pacific shore, each day is a new experience. Life in the midst of the natives is charged with bizarre events; visits by tribes of monkeys, crocodiles, alligators, huge sea turtles, or a whale shark, are interspersed by the arrival of neighbors bringing a few crackers to go with the coke they know awaits them, or the annual call of the social service medic to deliver tetanus shots. A trip to the nearest town becomes an adventure. A trip to the capital, San Jose, becomes a pleasure and a challenge. As the "gringos" learn what'! s important in life to a foreign people, their perspectives change to fit their new surroundings. Roughing it in a primative world means more than no hot water. It means no plumbing at all. Living in a simple dwelling, whose walls are painted inside and out, is a far cry from the unpainted houses of the average farmer/fisher folk whose floor are often dirt, not wood. Yet friendship is offered -- open and given freely to the newcomers who struggle to use a strange language and different custo.
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Costa Rican 'Oddacy': A New Life on Foreign Shores
EN PBISBN: 9780965990509 bzw. 0965990508, in Englisch, Publisher: Land of AZ Press, Taschenbuch.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Shipping costs to: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, 1stChoiceUsedBooks.
Publisher: Land of AZ Press. Cover: Trade Paperback. Grade: A. Synopsis: 302 pages. Iguana meat tastes better than chicken. Gray shark chunks make a great soup base. The cashew nut grows below the fruit that produces it, an...
Von Händler/Antiquariat, 1stChoiceUsedBooks.
Publisher: Land of AZ Press. Cover: Trade Paperback. Grade: A. Synopsis: 302 pages. Iguana meat tastes better than chicken. Gray shark chunks make a great soup base. The cashew nut grows below the fruit that produces it, an...
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Costa Rican "Oddacy": A New Life On Foreign Shores (1998)
EN HC USISBN: 9780965990509 bzw. 0965990508, in Englisch, Land of AZ Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Shipping costs to: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ergodebooks.
Land of AZ Press, 1998-01-01. Hardcover. Good.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Ergodebooks.
Land of AZ Press, 1998-01-01. Hardcover. Good.
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Costa Rican "Oddacy": a New Life on Foreign Shores (1998)
EN PB USISBN: 9780965990509 bzw. 0965990508, in Englisch, Land of AZ Press, Taschenbuch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ExtremelyReliable, TX, Richmond, [RE:3].
Hardcover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ExtremelyReliable, TX, Richmond, [RE:3].
Hardcover.
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Costa Rican Oddacy: a New Life on Foreign Shores (1998)
EN HC USISBN: 9780965990509 bzw. 0965990508, in Englisch, Land of AZ Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Squared, TX, Dallas, [RE:5].
Hardcover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, ThriftBooks - Squared, TX, Dallas, [RE:5].
Hardcover.
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