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.)