Book 2008
Panama Fever
3 readers
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- History - General History
- History
- Latin America - Central America
- Panama Canal (Panama)
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.