the path between the seas by david mccullough

Many urged the canal to be built across Nicaragua, using Nicaragua lake as a way to cross the isthmus. Panama was not the only location in consideration.

McCullough goes back to the beginning, when men first came up with the idea of a canal to link the oceans together across the thin strip of land in Central America. Narrated by Nelson Runger, the book was easy to understand and listen to. However, author David McCullough is a meticulous researcher, and although at times it felt like there was a lot of extraneous material, I came away with a new appreciation for what an undertaking this project really was. Even with my headphones on, this impressive audiobook takes a while to get through. I attempted to finish this book before our trip through the Panama Canal back in February 2022. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

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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. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. 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.

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 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.įrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal.

The path between the seas by david mccullough