Hardcover, 560 pages
English language
Published Jan. 1, 2007 by Doubleday.
Panama Fever
The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal
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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.
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)