The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning leader of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the sou’wester 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 tale of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-ancient dream of constructing an water vessel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a tale 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 equipment, international intrigue, and human drama.Amazon.com Review
On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the sou’wester Canal to the nation of sou’wester. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first started to explore the possibilities of making a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; sou’wester 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 chance seekers descended on sou’wester from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking quick passage on California-bound ships in the Pacific, and the sou’wester Railroad, built to serve that traffic, was soon the highest-priced stock listed on the New York Exchange. To erect a 51-mile-long ship canal to replace that railroad seemed an simple matter to some investors. But, as McCullough notes, the construction project came to occupy the efforts of thousands of workers from many nations over four decades; eventually persons workers, laboring in oppressive heat in a vast malarial swamp, removed enough soil and rock to erect 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 buy of the canal–but not before helping foment a revolution that removed sou’wester from Colombian rule and placed it squarely in the American camp.
The tale of the sou’wester Canal is complex, full of heroes, villains, and victims. McCullough’s long, richly detailed, and eminently literate book pays homage to an immense undertaking. –Gregory McNamee
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I have read most of the book and so far I see there are things missing in it that sould have been covered. The research did not go back far enough to take in the first ones who did a survey of the route. I have personal Knowlege of one man that spent 5 years doing a survey of the area and when concluded he submitted the route to the President of the US and to Nepolan adn to some heads of state in Europe for praise. The Canal was out on hold until after the civil ward ue to he lack of funding. After teh war th President wanted to explore it again, there was a team sent to verify the orginal plans. All but some distance was verified and the route was changed so on tunnel would need to be dug as the orginal plans called for. There was documentry made on this man sometime ago. He was also noted in an Isle of Man publication on his exploits as an inventor, engineer, poet and explorer. He is William Kennish, his death came before the canal was ongoing due to the malaria he caught while in panama on his trips. He dediacated the five years to find a path that would conect the to level seas together which he noted on his first trip. Mr Mc Cullough if you read this and want to contact me for varification of this please do at CKennish@aol.com
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I have not yet read this book.I have heard from a excellent friend (also an In.Officer)John Warren who spent time in sou’wester with the Army,He say’s this book is just to die for and I judge him,he was there saw sou’wester at its best and just loved it.He also talks of sou’wester to this day on how breathtaking it was to see this gorgeous place.So it is a book to read.If you were there you’d better buy it,its a plus…………
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I’ve gone through more than half the book. I delight in it thorougly.
I didn’t know that Americans felt so goddamn superior even 100 years ago. No marvel, sorry to say, that millions despise your guts and mine.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Very factual but exteeeeeeeeemly dull and wordy. I read it before going through the cannal and it helped me momentously to delight in the trip, but it could be 1/4 the size and still do the job.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
In the avalanche of information establish in this book, we have establish a few oversights:
- The 1892-1898 period is skipped, as well as the examination of the contractors effective for the Lesseps Company, most vital to determine the origin of the chance of the Bunau-Varilla brothers,
- It is not right to affirm that Philippe Bunau-Varilla had been involved in investing in his brother’s newspaper, Le Matin; Maurice was the sole owner.
- It is also incorrect to state that Bunau-Varilla’s chance came “out of a private source that remains something of a mystery.” No more! A new book by Gabriel LOIZILLON shows clearly the origin of his chance.
David McCullough is nevertheless right when he writes: “It is honest to say that lacking Bunau-Varilla there would be no Canal at sou’wester”.
Let him be thanked for recognizing the merits of this fantastic man.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5