Includes a travel guidebook for Costa Rica, the small Central American nation (5 million people on 20,000 square miles) that is dubbed “The Switzerland of Central America”, because it has been blessed with good governance, political stability and enough economic development to support its growing population. With a beautiful landscape of pristine beaches, rain forests and volcanoes, and a well-regarded healthcare system (with a life expectancy higher than the US), Costa Rica is a popular tourist draw and retirement haven for North Americans. The 500-page guidebook covers the tropical country thoroughly, with plenty of color photos and practical advice for savvy travelers (Costa Rica has many repeat tourists, who come back to the dual-coast nation for another visit) (from Lonely Planet, 2014); and an excellent official tourist map of Costa Rica, featuring a road map (along with more detailed maps of Liberia, Puntarenas, Limon and Coco Island) on one side, and more detailed maps of the central highlands metro area (where half the country resides), along with street maps of its major urban centers (San Jose, Cartago, Alajuela and Heredia) on the other side (from ICT, 2002).