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

by David McCullough (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 704 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (21 Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0743262131
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743262132
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.5 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 846,265 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Newsweek"McCullough is a storyteller with the capacity to steer readers through political, financial, and engineering intricacies without fatigue or muddle. This is grand-scale expert work.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant author, most exciting history book I know of., 19 Aug 1997
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This review is from: The Path between Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Paperback)
I certainly did not expect too much excitement from a 700 pages book about the Panama Canal, but David McCullough did an excellent job. He obviously did a lot of research, but his true accomplishment is putting all the little fragments together to one exciting story. This is not just history, it is politics, business, engineering, medicine, etc. And best of all, it is very well written and easy to read. I like it even better than "Truman", McCulloughs most famous book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Epic!, 16 Jul 1998
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Perhaps I am biased, having grown up in the Panama Canal Zone. All prejudices apart, though, this is the single best "history" book I have ever read. With a cast of characters worthy of a Tolstoy novel, McCullough gives the reader a thorough understanding of the magnitude and impact the little Isthmus of Panama has had on the history of the world.

This is much more than history. Indeed, the common claim that it reads like a novel is not an exaggeration. The 600+ pages overflow with unrelenting drama, vividly painted larger-than-life characters, exotic vistas, bustling courtrooms, etc. This is more a story about the people who struggled to realize a dream than it is about the little canal which captured their imaginations for centuries.

This book moved me to tears.

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, 11 Aug 1999
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This is the first book by David McCullough that I've read, and let me say I am impressed. I read this book while I was bedridden with an illness and McCullough's thorough research and excellent prose sucked me right into the middle of the struggles to complete this wonder of the world. And I liked it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, sprawling, epic!
This book does not just cover the magnificent engineering feats acomplished in the building of the canal. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Paul Spiller

2.0 out of 5 stars Not enough research done.
I have read most of the book and so far I see there are things lacking in it that sould have been covered. Read more
Published on 10 Jul 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Remarkable achievement
A Sprawling epic of the construction of the Panama Canal that encompasses 40 years and literally thousands of key participants. Read more
Published on 14 May 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars a great book that everyone should read
This was a great book. It covered the French involvement in great detail. The coruption invovled was frightening. It also detailed very well early attempts of the U.S. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the finest histories written in the 20th Century
The scope and the sweep of Path Between the Seas is immense. Yet this is no pedantic list of train cars needed and tons and tons of slipping, sliding earth. Read more
Published on 3 Jan 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars The Captivation of a History Buff
I have 3 French Grandsons. They asked me questions about the Suez Canal and that led us to the Panama Canal. A friend of mine lent me his book. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Slice of History, Politics, Medicine and Adventu
Although I read this work sometime ago, it has remained in my memory as one of my favorite works of history, up there with Morris' Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. Read more
Published on 25 April 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book ever written about the Panama Canal
I enjoyed this book so much. I was born and raised in the Republic of Panama and remeber gazing at the wonder of the Panama Canal. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting, Informative and one heck of a read
For someone who generaly does not read much, I found this book fantastic. It may have been the fact that I was in Panama at the time of starting to read it, but carried on... Read more
Published on 21 Feb 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written, would be good fiction but it's true!
We both read it and loved it. We're cruising the canal in February and having read this book will make our enjoyment SO MUCH MORE.
Published on 16 Dec 1997

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