Path Between The Seas : The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Author: David McCullough
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 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, an….Read More
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