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

Name: Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 By David Mccullough
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Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough

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Describes all the events and personalities involved in the monumental undertaking which precipitated revolution, scandal, economic crisis, and a new Central American republic.

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

Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough

"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.

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

The Washington Star David McCullough's history of this extraordinary construction job between the Atlantic and Pacific is everything history ought to be. It is dramatic, accurate...and altogether gripping.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times A chunk of history full of giant-sized characters and rich in political skullduggery.
The New York Daily News In the hands of McCullough, the digging of the great ditch becomes a kind of peacetime epic...The book will absorb you...You won't want to put it down once you've started reading it.
The Washington Post Book World Solid, entertainingly written and fair-minded...McCullough unravels the complicated and sometimes deliberately obscured story that lies behind the Panama Canal.
Newsweek McCullough is a storyteller with the capacity to steer readers through political, financial, and engineering intricacies without fatigue or muddle. This is grand-scale, expert work.

About David Mccullough

David McCullough has twice received the Pulitzer Prize, for Truman and John Adams, and twice received the National Book Award, for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback. His other acclaimed books include The Johnstown Flood, The Great Bridge, Brave Companions, 1776, The Greater Journey, and The Wright Brothers. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award. Visit DavidMcCullough.com.

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GOR001248707

ISBN 13

9780671244095

ISBN 10

0671244094

Title

Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914 by David Mccullough

Author

David Mccullough

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Year published

1999-11-15

Number of pages

698

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