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

David McCullough

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

The Path Between the Seas won the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award, and was a national bestseller. The Path Between the Seas tells the stories of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing a maritime passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. McCullough masterfully recounts astonishing engineering and 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.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
1977
ISBN-13
9780671244095
Genre
History
Topics
Panama Canal constructionEngineering and innovationAmerican foreign policy and imperialism

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