How concrete channelled the American dream ; Panama Fever By Matthew Parker HUTCHINSON [pound]20 (444pp)

The Independent - London | May 18, 2007| | Copyright

The building of the Panama Canal was the greatest engineering feat in history. Although visionaries had dreamed of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and thus shaving 7,000 miles off the New York-San Francisco route via Cape Horn, only in the 1880s did the hero of the Suez canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps, try to covert the idea into reality.

Having proved the sceptics wrong over Suez, de Lesseps woefully underrated the obstacles that awaited his Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interoceanique when it tried to drive through the isthmus of Panama. As if torrential rain, snakes, insects, swamps, ...

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