Cover of Panama Fever

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.