Path Between the Seas

The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914

By: David Mccullough

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Paperback | 15 October 1978 | Edition Number 1

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The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.

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.

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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. 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. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt The New York Times A chunk of history full of giant-sized characters and rich in political skullduggery. 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. 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.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas General & World History Science Science in General Engineering & Technology Technology in General

Preface	p. 11
The Vision 1870-1894	p. 17
Threshold	p. 19
The Hero	p. 45
Consensus of One	p. 70
Distant Shores	p. 101
The Incredible Task	p. 124
Soldiers Under Fire	p. 153
Downfall	p. 182
The Secrets of Panama	p. 204
Stars and Stripes Forever 1890-1904	p. 243
Theodore the Spinner	p. 245
The Lobby	p. 270
Against All Odds	p. 305
Adventure by Trigonometry	p. 329
Remarkable Revolution	p. 361
Envoy Extraordinary	p. 387
The Builders 1904-1914	p. 403
The Imperturbable Dr. Gorgas	p. 405
Panic	p. 438
John Stevens	p. 459
The Man with the Sun in His Eyes	p. 490
The Chief Point of Attack	p. 529
Life and Times	p. 555
Triumph	p. 589
Afterword	p. 616
Acknowledgments	p. 618
Notes	p. 623
Sources	p. 655
Index	p. 671
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Path Between the Seas

The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870 to 1914

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