Бумажные издания
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 David McCullough
ISBN: 978-0671244095 Год издания: 1978 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Язык: Английский On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership of the Panama Canal to the nation of Panama. That nation did not exist when, in the mid-19th century, Europeans first began to explore the possibilities of creating a link between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the narrow but mountainous isthmus; Panama was then a remote and overlooked part of Colombia. All that changed, writes David McCullough in his magisterial history of the Canal, in 1848, when prospectors struck gold in California. A wave of fortune seekers descended on Panama from Europe and the eastern United States, seeking…
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Аудиокниги
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 David McCullough
ISBN: 0743549481, 9780743549486 Год издания: 2003 Издательство: Simon Schuster Audio Язык: Английский Winner of the National Book Award for history, The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and women who fought against all odds to fulfill the 400-year-old dream of constructing an aquatic passageway between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. McCullough expertly weaves the many strands of this momentous event into a captivating tale. Like his masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography John Adams, David McCullough's The Path Between the Seas has the sweep and vitality of a great novel.…
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Path Between the Seas Дэвид Маккалоу
ISBN: 9781442342149 Издательство: Gardners Books Язык: Английский