The building of the Panama Canal was one of the most grandiose,
dramatic, and sweeping adventures of all time. Spanning nearly half
a century, from its beginnings by a France in pursuit of glory to
its completion by the United States on the eve of World War I, it
enlisted men, nations, and money on a scale never before seen.
Apart from the great wars, it was the largest, costliest single
effort ever mounted anywhere on earth, and it affected the lives of
tens of thousands of people throughout the world. Here in all its
heartbreak and eventual triumph the epic adventure is brought
vividly alive by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such books as
"The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, Truman," and "John Adams."
Filled with vivid detail and incident, "The Path Between the
Seas" is not only a fact-filled account of an unprecedented
engineering feat; it is also the story of the people who were
caught up in it -- some to win fame and fortune, others to have
their reputations and even their lives destroyed. For many it was
the adventure of a lifetime, an adventure whose like will never be
seen again. Out of it came a revolution, the birth of a new nation,
the conquest of yellow fever, and the expansion of American
power.
Told from many viewpoints, this is an account drawn from
previously unpublished and undiscovered sources, from interviews
with actual participants and their families, from material gathered
in Paris, Bogota, Panama, the Canal Zone, and Washington. It is a
canvas filled with memorable people: Ferdinand de Lesseps and his
son Charles, trying to repeat de Lesseps's Suez triumph; Jules
Verne; Paul Gauguin; Gustave Eiffel; A. T. Mahan and Richard
Harding Davis; Senator MarkHanna; Secretary of State John Hay; the
incredible Philippe Bunau-Varilla, "the man who invented Panama";
Dr. William Gorgas; the forgotten American engineer hero John
Stevens; Colonel George Washington Goethals; and, above all,
Theodore Roosevelt, who "took Panama" in 1903 and left his
indelible stamp on the canal.
As informative as it is fascinating, "The Path Between the Seas"
is history told in the grand manner. With novelistic urgency it
presents one of the great stories of all time in an account that
will remain definitive for many years to come.
With two detailed maps and more than eighty photographs.
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