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Path Between The Seas
The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914  
By David McCullough
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Contents

PREFACE

BOOK ONE: THE VISION 1870-1894

1. Threshold
2. The Hero
3. Consensus of One
4. Distant Shores
5. The Incredible Task
6. Soldiers Under Fire
7. Downfall
8. The Secrets of Panama

BOOK TWO: STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER 1890-1904

9. Theodore the Spinner
10. The Lobby
11. Against All Odds
12. Adventure by Trigonometry
13. Remarkable Revolution
14. Envoy Extraordinary

BOOK THREE: THE BUILDERS 1904-1914

15. The Imperturbable Dr. Gorgas
16. Panic
17. John Stevens
18. The Man with the Sun in His Eyes
19. The Chief Point of Attack
20. Life and Times
21. Triumph
Afterword

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTES
SOURCES
INDEX

MAPS
Panama During the French Era
Panama, the Canal, and the Canal Zone

PICTURE SECTIONS