The Gringo's Hawk
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (847 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0967778700 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 317 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Though its premise is promising, this memoir of an American man's three decades in the coastal rain forests of Costa Rica proves a stilted and unrewarding read. And while his environmental and cultural concerns are laudable and certainly sincere, they're blunted by a superficial interpretation of his adopted nation's economic and political realities. His concluding chapters, in which he laments the destruction of rain forests, the overfishing of the ocean and landscape-scarring highway const
"The Gringo's Hawk Will Haunt Your Mind, Too" according to Richard P. Haight. For the sake of truth in reviewing, I confess that I had a small editorial/copy editing role in this book's preparation. From the first, this has been a 5-star book in my life, and fortunately, Maranon overcame my "help" and saw the project to completion. Readers will be engaged by an engaging author who doesn't "take himself too seriously." He might have had a comfortable life, or a wildly exciting life as a "rock star," but he had two character "flaws": a passionate love of the natural world and integrity. He had to. An enlightening work on change and growth in Costa Rica Steve M The Gringo's Hawk is a thoroughly enjoyable read by Jon Marañon (nom de plume). Marañon made the tropical paradise of Costa Rica his home some 30 years ago and documented the immense change he witnessed in the ensuing years in a charming erstwhile enlightening manner. He describes the socio-cultural and ecological conditions of a remote part of Costa Rica as he found them, and the changes and growing pains he suffered and shared with the local community during his years there.Through his memoirs we share. A compelling, highly recommended autobiographical story The Gringo's Hawk is the personal memoir of a varied and remarkable life. Jon Maranon was an idealistic American who became a landowner on the southwest coast of Costa Rica. Maranon found himself confronted with one crisis after another ranging from chicken hawks, to termites, to adjudicating peasant disputes, to conflicts with other landlords who felt Maranon paid his peasants too much. He fervently battled with Costa Rican government to stop the slow degradation of the environment, and worked with scientists to unde
This American author has spent thirty years in the rainforests of Costa Rica documenting the challenges and triumphs of his attempts to make an environmentally conscious sustainable living in this paradise. His work promotes reader awareness of the natural environment, wildlife, ecosystems, and socioculture of this remote area of Costa Rica. Ecology and spirituality intertwine as he describes his journey in a mix of naturalist and lyrical prose that, along with humor and introspection, mark the style of The Gringo's Hawk.. Jon Maranon offers a unique first-person account of nature and persons in conflict and the difficulties of meshing human existence into the once pristine rainforests of Costa Rica