However the background on the key players and the obstacles to construction are very interesting and it is a great history lesson on this achievement, but it could have been a hundred pages shorter. " I like David McCullough's other books, like Truman, but this book gets mired in minutia. " Excellent for the history buffs! " - Frankie, It's one, long, astonishing ride! " - Katherine, " My tour guide in Panama called this "The Bible." Highly recommend before visiting the canal. But it was Roosevelt and American ingenuity that got it done. " Ferdinand de Lesseps and the French may have had the idea to build this monstrosity of an international shipping lane. Can't wait to read more of McCullough's work. He makes you love to learn about history. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.I hope I get to go there someday so I can see it." I was so interested in the political and business background of both the French and American attempts to organize support for the project.
I would proabaly like another chapter on the Carter transfer to Panama. "Wow!! I loved this book!! It was amazing how for each portion of the development and building of the canal, the perfect person appeared in a leadership role. This audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested in American history, international intrigue, and human drama. 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. McCullough expertly weaves the many strands of this momentous event into a captivating tale. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. 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.
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