Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914,

A Touchstone Book

Paperback

Non-Fiction

698

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No, comparable account of the sweeping human undertaking that created the Panama Canal had ever been written before this book. The canal was the most elaborate construction effort ever mounted and had vast historical reverberations that echoed right down to the recent controversy over its future. In his talk to the nation about the proposed treaty, President Carter referred to this book as ”the great story about the Panama Canal,” and Newsweek reported that ”he stayed up until 4 o’clock one morning reading it.” Christopher Lehmann-Haupt in The New York Times wrote that it was ”a chunk of history full of giant-sized characters and rich in political skull-duggery... told with breathtaking dramatic ca-dence.” A best seller in its cloth edition and a full selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, it has won practically every prestigious award (see front cover) for being the best book of the year on foreign affairs and history.

Simon and Schuster

9780671244095

United States

United States of America

1977-01-01

1977

1

English

New York, New York

~$5.20

2026-04-14

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