Guanacaste: Retratos de Vida/Life Portraits (English and Spanish Edition) - Hardcover

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Limited, bilingual edition with over 150 photographs of the people and natural bounty of Costa Rica's northwestern Guanacaste province. Costa Rica is known worldwide as a country akin to paradise. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Guanacaste, named after the imposing Guanacaste tree. The diversity of Guanacaste's terrain--volcanoes, mountains, plains, wetlands, tropical dry forests and the Pacific Ocean--reflects its strong cultural identity. Guanacasteans guard their traditions reverently: the men taking sand out of the Tempisque River with oxen, the lagarteros on the annual Easter crocodile hunt, men and women harvesting turtle eggs...and everywhere are the cowboys--the sabaneros--driving cattle across the lowlands, or atop a dancing horse during one of the region's many fiestas. Photographer Zoraida Diaz has spent five years capturing the myriad and--sometimes--rare moments Guanacaste and its people have to offer, providing an insightful photographic record of the life forces of the province. Alongside Ms Diaz's pictures, some of Guanacaste's favorite sons and daughters--journalists, poets, singers, songwriters and a biologist--have added their words, sharing with us what it is to be a Guanacasteco<I>.

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