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Since its creation in 1973, the award-winning Moon Handbooks series has become a top choice among travelers who want a completely unique experience, a new perspective -- and a few new stories to tell. Want to know about your destination's history, culture, and social issues? Looking for the lowdown on recreational opportunities, dining and accommodations options...

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Nicaraguan Institute of Tourism
"This visionary work will help anyone thinking of living or making money in Nicaragua. It promises to be a classic"

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Language Notes
Text: English, Spanish

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From Publishers Weekly
For exciting adventures in feral pig-hunting, salt-water fly-fishing or crocodile poaching, it's hard to imagine a better guide than White. In these stories, originally published in different forms in Outside magazine, White (Batfishing in the Rainforest) proves his mettle as an incisive humorist and a first-rate travel journalist. A "desire not to be whac...

Midwest Book Review
Most travel guides to the general reason lump Nicaragua with other countries and generally say very little about Nicaragua alone: this provides almost three hundred pages packed with practical travel advice. Details on accommodations, outdoors activities, transportation, and all the other practicalities of independent travel within the country make for a prac...

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This Ulysses Travel Guide presents a Nicaragua beyond the image created by media reports and travel brochures. The splendor of this "land of lakes and volcanoes" and the warmth of its people are brought to life by local legends, songs and poetry, giving you a vivid picture of the real Nicaragua. Written by a volunteer living in the country, this is the most comp...

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A classic work on the natural history of Nicaragua by the British geologist who superintended the Chontales Gold Mining Company from 1868 to 1872. Belt was especially influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection and his book contains a great deal of evidence to support it.

Darwin wrote of this book: "It appears to me to be the best of all n...

Amazon.com
The great white gets all the press, but the shark most feared by people around the world is the bull shark, a fish of warm seas that even penetrates fresh water, swimming up rivers and into lakes. In Nicaragua, fishermen still pursue these unusual predators by dangerous, traditional means. Acclaimed travel writer Edward Marriott takes us into the brackish realm of the...

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Some deaths in war are unmistakably heroic, sacrifices for the greater good. Some are merely sacrifices, and whatever good comes from them happens years later, when the events surrounding them have been all but forgotten. Such was the case with the death of Ben Linder, a young American engineer who, fired by ideals of social justice, volunteered to aid the Sandinista ...

From Booklist
Saxgren is a well-received Danish photojournalist who supplies not only the photos but also the text for this sobering album featuring the children of Nicaragua that were caught in the social disintegration of the country following the devastating civil war of the 1980s. His grainy, graphic shots follow the denizens of Managua's Callejon de la Muerte, "Death Alley,...

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iJET Weekly Travel Intelligence® Report - Nicaragua provides you detailed Travel Intelligence® that is updated weekly reflecting local conditions as of 7-15 days prior to purchase. Travel Intelligence® differs from typical destination information in that it is current, independent, unbiased knowledge focusing on potential travel concerns. Travel ...

Jorge Contreras, Office of Tourism Affairs, Guatemala Embassy
"...magnificent research...the avenue to choose the best “posada”...excellent work"

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From Publishers Weekly
Ford, former Christian Science Monitor correspondent for Central America, here recounts his arduous, often perilous three-month exploration of Central America's east coast from Belize to Panama. On foot and in craft of all kinds, from a $1-million racing yacht to a molasses barge to leaky dugout canoes, he traversed idyllic and harsh territory, fishing vil...

From Publishers Weekly
West, a British journalist, has interesting things to say about U.S. influence in Nicaragua, the cultural divide between Anglo-Saxon and Spanish-Indian, and the increasing rift in the Catholic church between traditionalists and liberation theologians. The result of February elections does not mitigate the highly informative sections concerning four men who...

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Ingram
"Nicaragua in Focus" is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to this fascinating country. It explores the land, history and politics (including the crucial and difficult relationship with the U.S.), economy, society and people, culture and environment, and includes tips on where to go and what to see. Color and b&w photos, maps.

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From Publishers Weekly
Bombay-born novelist Rushdie (Midnight's Children) visited Nicaragua in 1986 and here writes of poetry recitals, political rallies, meetings with peasants, soldiers and members of the opposition. PW noted that Rushdie believes the Sandinistas have made mistakes but that "the Nicaraguan people have a right not to be 'squashed' by the United States."
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From the Back Cover
Nicaragua: A Country Guide is the most important book to date for understanding the political and intellectual origins of Violeta Chamorro's government and, therefore, the bases for political conflict in Nicaragua over the first half of the 1990s. (Michael Conroy, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Texas at Austin) --This text refers to the P...

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