The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
McCullough, David (1933-2022)
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6"x9" 698 indexed pages w/bibliograph, notes and many B&W photos. First printing. Cover design by Mary Ann Smith. Cover illustration by Wendell Minor. Designed by Edith Fowler. Spine straight, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Not x-library, unclipped, & unmarked. Faint 1" P on spine. Secure ship w/track #. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Source Goodreads. Seller Inventory # 4787
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of ...
Publisher: Touchstone by Simon & Schuster, NY
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Near Fine-Collectible
Edition: 1st Edition.
About this title
All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the Panama Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To build a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an easy matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to involve the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually those workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to build a pyramid a mile high. In the early years, they toiled under the direction of French entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps, who went bankrupt while pursuing his dream of extending France's empire in the Americas. The United States then entered the picture, with President Theodore Roosevelt orchestrating the purchase of the canal--but not before helping foment a revolution that removed Panama from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.
The story of the Panama Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough's long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. --Gregory McNamee
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