The Path Between the Seas
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The Path Between the Seas
| Full title | The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870–1914 |
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| Author | David McCullough |
| Published | 1977 |
| Pages | 698 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | McCullough on the forty-year effort to cut a canal through Panama — the French failure, the disease, the politics and the engineering, and what a project at that scale does to the people running it. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @moseskagan — named in the answers to his question “What historical fiction should I read next? (Bonus points for something involving building or trade, rather than violence)” (the thread, April 2025). Full list: What historical fiction should I… (tweet).
- Replies to @typesfast — named again, independently, in the answers to “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (the thread, June 2025). Full list: What’s the best history book… (tweet). Two separate crowds reaching for the same title in answer to different questions is the signal worth acting on.
Connections
- What historical fiction should I… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Infrastructure
- City Building
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.