In 1870, Count Ferdinand de Lesseps completes the Suez Canal and seeks new work.
A thesis central to McCullough’s work is that there is a vast difference between enthusiasm for an idea and having the ability-and vision-to implement this change. Many previously contemplated whether this is possible-from explorers, such as Christopher Columbus, to presidents, such as Benjamin Franklin. The Canal is supposed to shorten journey times across America and overseas. There are three separate parts to the book. The book provides an oversight into those who built the Panama Canal, where it was built and everything that happened over the course of the construction-including the major political issues, which see the project change ownership. McCullough is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written many nonfiction books. The Path Between the Seas received numerous awards, including the 1978 National Book Award for History and the 1977 Cornelius Ryan Award. Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 (1977), a work of nonfiction by David McCullough, describes the history of the Panama Canal, from its inception to its completion, and the disasters along the way. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The National Book Award–winning epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal, a first-rate drama of the bold and brilliant engineering feat that was filled with both tragedy and triumph, told by master historian David McCullough.įrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal.
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