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Cover Preface Epigraph The Path Between the Seas BOOK ONE The Vision 1870–1894
1 Threshold
I II III Sunday, April 10– Another sleepless night, on account of insects. . .. Saturday, April 9.–Started down the right bank of the river. Left behind nine men who were shoeless. Cut through 5,000 feet, a dense mangrove [swamp]. . .. Friday, April 8– Thursday, April 7
2 The Hero 3 Consensus of One Illustrations
Jules Verne COLLECTION OF GEORGES SIROT Lieutenant Lucien Napoleon-Bonaparte Wyse BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE CULVER PICTURES, INC. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HARPER’S WEEKLY BOTH PHOTOS: CULVER PICTURES, INC. Front Street, Colón, as it looked during the French era UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY Ferdinand de Lesseps with his entourage in Panama in 1880 PANAMA CANAL COMPANY UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY BOTH PHOTOS: PANAMA CANAL COMPANY Operating room at Ancon sometime in the late 1880’s FROM MOSQUITO CONTROL, JOSKPII I.K PRINCE, G. P. PUTNAM, 1916 One of hundreds of surviving death certificates from the Ancon hospital, this of a twenty-nine-year-old Frenchman who died of yellow fever in 1886 Philippe Bunau-Varilla at the time of his graduation from the Ecole Polytechnique PANAMA CANAL COMPANY BOTH PHOTOS: PANAMA CANAL COMPANY French ladder dredge at work. It was upon machines of this kind that Bunau-Varilla rested his novel scheme for rescuing the French effort during its desperate finale. Baron Jacques de Reinach Georges Clemenceau ALL ILLUSTRATIONS: BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE A contemporary artist’s conception of the bedridden Cornelius Herz, the “mystery man of Panama,” sequestered in his hotel room at Bournemouth, England The abandoned château of the first Directeur Général, the muchpublicized “folie Dingler” An abandoned French excavator is overtaken by the jungle near Tabernilla.
4 Distant Shores 5 The Incredible Task 6 Soldiers Under Fire 7 Downfall 8 The Secrets of Panama
BOOK TWO: STARS AND STRIPES FOR EVER 1890–1904
9 Theodore the Spinner 10 The Lobby Illustrations
George Shattuck Morison LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CULVER PICTURES, INC. Philippe Bunau-Varilla COURTESY OF SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LIBRARY OF CONGRESS NATIONAL ARCHIVES FROM THE MAKERS OF THE PANAMA CANAL, 1911 UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY Roosevelt at work in his study at Sagamore Hill NEW YORK GLOBE “The Man Behind the Egg” THEODORE ROOSEVELT COLLECTION, HARVARD FROM PANAMA: THE CREATION, DESTRUCTION, AND RESURRECTION, PHILIPPE Bunau-Varilla, ROBERT M. MCBRIDE, 1920 *
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 Illustrations
John Stevens PANAMA CANAL COMPANY Stegomyia fasciata, an adult female (much enlarged) NATIONAL ARCHIVES LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COLLECTION OF J. W. D. COLLINS FROM THE PANAMA GATEWAY, JOSEPH BUCKLIN BISHOP, CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS, 1913 PANAMA CANAL COMPANY Spanish track gang PANAMA CANAL COMPANY *
16 Panic 17 John Stevens 18 The Man with the Sun in His Eyes Illustrations
Typical housing at Ancon for upper-echelon employees FROM THE MAKERS OF THE PANAMA CANAL, 1911 NATIONAL ARCHIVES Momentary pause at a Saturday-night dance at the Tivoli Hotel BOTH PHOTOS: COLLECTION OF J. W. D. COLLINS BOTH PHOTOS: PANAMA CANAL COMPANY Culebra Station as it looked in 1911 FROM THE MAKERS OF THE PANAMA CANAL, 1911 PANAMA CANAL COMPANY BOTH PHOTOS: NATIONAL ARCHIVES Typical housing for West Indian laborers COLLECTION OF D. P. GAILLARD PANAMA CANAL COMPANY “Headquarters” at Mount Hope Interior of the pay car, which delivered 1,600 pounds of gold, 48,000 pounds of silver coin monthly ALL PHOTOS: NATIONAL ARCHIVES The rise of Gatun Locks. Aerial tramway delivers buckets of concrete to steel forms. PANAMA CANAL COMPANY Gate leaves (double gates in foreground, intermediate gates beyond) near completion, 1912. The Approaches to Gatun Locks by Joseph Pennell BOTH PHOTOS: PANAMA CANAL COMPANY A party of tourists views Culebra Cut and the Cucaracha slide early in 1914, after Goethals had filled the Cut with water and continued the work with dredges. The tug Gatun approaches Gatun Locks for the first trial lockage. Steamer Ancon starts into Culebra Cut on the official opening transit of the canal, August 15, 1914. * In an average city in the United States in 1906 the death toll from disease among an equal number of people would have been about thirty.
19 The Chief Point of Attack 20 Life and Times 21 Triumph
Afterword Acknowledgments About the Author By David McCullough Notes Sources Index
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