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David McCullough (1977)
The long, twisted history of the Panama canal told with a wonderful eye for detail,. both personal and political. It’s hard to imagine that that a work of construction was considered so vital that it survived the changes of engineering direction, political about-turns, and financial upheavals that bedevilled Panama. It left me wanting to transit the cabal for myself, just to see it and imagine its tortuous construction.
4/5. Finished Thursday 15 November, 2018.
(Originally published on Goodreads.)