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Title: STill the Best Overview Available on the History of the Panama Canal
Review: While on a small ship educational cruise with Smithsonian Journeys from New England through the Panama Canal this fall, I was introduced to David McCullough's classic history on the creation of the canal. McCullough's ability to comprehensively deliver on all the relevant historic facts, as well as present highly readable and entertaining human interest stories, made this book an outstanding read, even though it was published in 1977. When we toured Panama, the Panama Canal and associated museums, now all maintained by the Panamanian government, the museum display captions were all written in Spanish, and effectively translated by our multi-lingual guide, but it felt as if he was actually reading from McCullough's book. Once we returned from the cruise and I no longer had access to the ship's copy of McCullough's work, I had to get one of my own.
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