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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal from 1870 to 1914


Year: 1997
Language: english
Author: David McCullough
Genre: History
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, NY, NY
Edition: First
ISBN: 9780743201377
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 767
Description: 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.
The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In “The Path Between the Seas”, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise.
“The Path Between the Seas” 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.
Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), “The Path Between the Seas” is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.

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