Simon & Schuster
June 2004
On Sale: May 25, 2004
Featuring: Theodore Roosevelt
704 pages ISBN: 0743262131 EAN: 9780743262132 Hardcover (reprint) Add to Wish List
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman,
here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the
creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the
Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a
first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led
to the creation of this grand enterprise.
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. Applying his remarkable gift for
writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many
strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and
captivating tale.
Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis
Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the
Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on
international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is
a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the
history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.