| Edition |
1st U.S. ed. |
| Description |
xxvi, 530 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Content type |
text txt rdacontent |
| Format |
volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part one -- The golden isthmus: The keys to the universe -- Rivalry and stalemate -- Gold rush -- A natural culminating point -- The competing routes. Part two -- Le grand Francais -- The fatal decision -- The riches of France -- Travail commence -- Fever -- Jules Dingler -- Annus horribilis -- Collapse and scandal. Part three -- The American triumph: Heroes and Villains- the "Battle of the Routes" -- I took the Isthmus -- Make the dirt fly -- Yellow Jack -- Restart -- The railroad era -- The digging machine -- Segregation -- The army of Panama -- Hell's Gorge -- Lord how piercing! -- The land divided, the world united -- Whose canal is it, anyway? |
| Summary |
Traces the four-century dream to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the visionaries who recognized the significance of the engineering feat, the triumphant construction of the waterway and its opening in 1914, the appalling human cost of the project in terms of harsh working conditions and epidemics and the medical breakthroughs that would transform medicine. |
| Subject |
Panama Canal (Panama) -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780385515344 alkaline paper |
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0385515340 alkaline paper |
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