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

McCullough, David

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

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.

Title of ebook: The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
ISBN: 9780743201377
Publisher: Touchstone
Internet download file size: 677 kb
Pages: 700
Released online for download: 06-01-2001
Author of eBook: McCullough, David
1: McCullough, David

Path Between The Seas

The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

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Chapter 1

Threshold

There is a charm of adventure about this new quest...
The New York Times

The letter, several pages in length and signed by Secretary of the Navy George M. Robeson, was addressed to Commander Thomas O. Selfridge. It was an eminently clear, altogether formal document, as expected, and had a certain majesty of tone that Commander Selfridge thought quite fitting. That he and the Secretary were personally acquainted, that they had in fact become pleasantly drunk together on one past occasion and vowed eternal friendship as their carriage rolled through the dark capital, were in no way implied. Nor is it important, except that Selfridge, a serious and sober man on the whole, w ... read full excerpt from The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 ebook