The Path between the Seas: The creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (Algunos subrayados)

The national book award winning epic chronicle of the creation of the panama canal, a firstrate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the panama canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a firstrate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. 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. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures.