The Panama Canal
by Bob Considine
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- Canonical title
- The Panama Canal
- Original publication date
- 1951
- Important places
- Panama Canal, Panama
- Important events
- Building of the Panama Canal
- First words
- The dream of a waterway through that slender cord of mountain and jungle which unites North and South America - the Isthmus of Panama - first took shape in the mind of Christopher Columbus.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It will have been simplified for them not so much by modern earth-moving and dredging equipment as by the human contributions of men now long since gone on to their reward ... dreamers who ranged down the generations from Columbus to Theodore Roosevelt ... and doers as different in time and temperament as Pedrarias, whose slaves built the first Isthmian path, to Goethals, whose associates managed, after the failure of the French, to deepen that path into a waterway short-cut through which nations and men may know one another better than before.
- Original language
- English
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 386.444 — Society, government, & culture Commerce, communications & transportation regulations Inland waterway and ferry transportation Canals
- LCC
- HE537.8 .C6 — Social sciences Transportation and communications Transportation and communications Water transportation Waterways
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