Panama Fever : The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal (Paperback)

from bcquinnsmom

Having been all the way through the canal within the past few months, I picked up this book to try to get a feel for how this marvel of engineering came about. Parker's book is very well written and does a fine job of explaining the history of the building of the canal so that non-technical peopl...

from kaitanya64

This tells the story of the Panama Canal from the origins of the idea with the Spanish explorers to the completion of the canal at the start of WW I. Lots of detail and firsthand accounts, but Parker does a nice job of moving the story along, explaining the technical details without bogging down ...

from Ken-Me-Old-Mate

Panama Fever: The Building of the Panama Canal by Matthew Parker This is the whole story of the canal and I'm convinced that nothing is left out, it is so comprehensive if not mind numbing at times.A well written and cohesive account that ceratinly goes overboard on statistics and dates and ...

from yukon92

For a book about a place with so much water - this book was bone dry! I drudged through it hoping it would get better, but no such luck. Too much concentration on the political and scheming side of the construction and NOT on the actual building of the canal.