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Original Title:	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
ISBN:	0743262131 (ISBN13: 9780743262132)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Panama
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for History (1978), Francis Parkman Prize (1978), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1977), Cornelius Ryan Award (1977)

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

David McCullough

Hardcover | Pages: 697 pages

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Title	:	The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Author	:	David McCullough
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 697 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2004 by Simon Schuster (first published June 1st 1977)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. Historical. World History. Audiobook. Travel

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On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia.

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.

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I read this out loud to Dan. I really didn't think we'd finish before we left for Panama, but we did it! And this book is loooong. I really enjoyed it though. This is the first McCullough book I've read and I'm incredibly impressed with the amount of research he puts into his writing and loved all the details. It made seeing the Canal so much more impressive. I only wish McCullough would have gone into a little more depth with the actual engineering of the canal, but the politics behind the

My whole life is a lie! My favorite palindrome is BOGUS. I mean, sure, it's still a palindrome, but it's just not true!A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL, PANAMA!A M A N A P L A N A C A N A L P A N A M AThere wasn't "a" man, there wasn't even "a" plan. There were like, a dozen men, all with various plans! It was almost built in Nicaragua! The one guy with a decent plan from the beginning was ignored and his plan sat unnoticed in a file somewhere, while the rest of them ran around, killing thousands of

You wouldn't think that a book detailing the creation of the Panama Canal would be an exciting and quick read. Well, you'd be wrong! I love David McCullough, I think he is flat-out the best biographer out there as well as being one hell of a history author. 1776 is my favorite book about the American revolution. The Path Between the Seas had me so interested in geology, Central American politics, jungle wildlife, topography, stuff that I would never have thought I would be interested in. It's

This is a wonderful book. I read this book ahead of a cruise my wife and I took through the Panama Canal and was stunned at the massive under taking to accomplish this structure. This is a part of history I knew nothing about. How France went bankrupt trying to finish it, the huge numbers of people who died from yellow fever and the theories at the time of why. Fascinating.At one point the author gives a list of what one surveying expedition took on the trip. For me the list is fascinating all

A riveting window into another era...French first and then American. An audacious dream and a stunning feat. Personalities, politics, science...timing. Tragedy, failures and stupendous success. We will be visiting the Panama Canal next month. It will be a far richer experience having read this beautifully written history.

I'm listening to this on Audible and I can't go on. Just leave me here on the shores of the Chagras River to be swallowed up by the next rainy season. Maybe I'll rally like the Americans and finish the job, but I'm gonna need to take a break and dry out first.

A couple of weeks ago, I was discussing my recent string of books chronicling enormous engineering projects (The Great Bridge, the Worlds Fair part of The Devil in the White City and now The Path Between the Seas) with my friend Paul, and as I relayed the sacrifices made and the years dedicated by the men behind these works, Paul remarked, Dude, can you imagine dedicating your life to building a f*cking bridge? On many levels, this insight is full of wisdom. The engineers who undertook these