Panama Fever
Subtitle: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: March 18, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780385515344
Subjects: History - General History; History: American; History; Latin America - Central America; United States - 20th Century (1900-1945); History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Americas (North Central South West Indies); Panama Canal (Panama)
Description: Traces the construction of the canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and its opening in 1914, describing the human cost in terms of the harsh working conditions and epidemics, and the resulting medical breakthroughs that would transform medicine.