Panama Fever

Matthew Parker

RRP: £20.00

Publisher: HUTCHINSON

Publication Date : 01/03/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

The brilliantly ambitious, epic story of a thirty-year battle against the elements, disease, impossible terrain and massive financial collapse to create one of the most extraordinary engineering feats in world history.

Publisher's description:

The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of attrition comparable to many great battles. This book traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

ISBN: 9780091797041