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

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

David McCullough

697 pages first pub 1977 (editions)

nonfiction historical history informative slow-paced
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On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibili...

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