Panama fever (95 page)
Authors: Matthew Parker
Tags: #History - General History, #Technology & Engineering, #History, #Central, #Central America, #Americas (North, #Central America - History, #United States - 20th Century (1900-1945), #United States, #Civil, #Civil Engineering (General), #General, #History: World, #Panama Canal (Panama) - History, #Panama Canal (Panama), #West Indies), #Latin America - Central America, #South, #Latin America
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FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, MARCH 2009
Copyright © 2007 by Matthew Parker
All rights reserved.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows:
Parker, Matthew.
Panama fever: the epic story of the building of the Panama Canal / Matthew Parker. —1st ed. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Panama Canal (Panama)—History I. Title.
F1569.C2P36S 2008
972.87′503 —dc22
2007017995
eISBN: 978-0-307-47253-3
v3.0
Table of Contents
PREFACE: THE BATTLE TO BUILD THE CANAL
CHAPTER NINE “Travail Commencé”
Heroes and Villains—The “Battle of the Routes”
The Land Divided, The World United