The Conquest of the Isthmus

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Excerpt from The Conquest of the Isthmus: The Men Who Are Building the Panama Canal Their Daily Lives, Perils, and Adventures The steam shovels at Panama are tearing three million cubic yards of dirt from mountain and jungle every thirty days. This is a big record, the biggest in the engineering history of the world. But it was not to study the steam shovels that I visited the Isthmus. On the contrary, it was to give my attention to the shirt-sleeved, sun-tanned men who are Operating the steam shovels. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.