The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 Free Audiobook Download by David McCullough

On the morning of August 17, 1914, the first steamship passed from sea to sea across the Isthmus of Panama. On board were the members of a group of scientists who had been commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt to report on the feasibility of building a canal there and would remain on one side or the other while they conducted their research. The most famous among them was Ferdinand de Lesseps, whose company had gone bankrupt right before his eyes in 1882 after he had spent almost $100 million financing what he thought would be an easy project.

The Path Between the Seas is an incredible historical saga about the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is a system of locks, dams, and channels that allows ships to pass from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean across Central America. It was constructed by the United States between 1880 and 1914 through a French-American canal.

In this audiobook, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 is narrated by Edward Herrmann. In 1878, a French company named Ferdinand de Lesseps undertook an ambitious project to create a canal across the isthmus of Panama. It would be built with the help of 200,000 workers and engineers from 1881 to 1914. This book tells the story of how just one year after De Lesseps began his project, there was already talk of scrapping it. But that did not happen until 1913 when America made its entrance into World War I and took over control of the canal project.

The Path Between the Seas is an audiobook written by David McCullough, which tells the story of the building of the Panama Canal. The book covers four decades of time and focuses on several important events that shaped history. In this audiobook, Edward Herrmann narrates the book in his own voice.

The Panama Canal is not only one of the most ambitious construction projects ever conceived, but it has been described as a 'engineering miracle'. In The Path Between the Seas Using reminiscences from participants and written sketches from the time, David McCullough tells the story of how the American entrepreneur who founded the Panama Canal Company managed to persuade Congress to approve an unrealistic plan. The story being told is interesting enough in its own right, but what makes this audiobook so exceptional is that it is narrated by Edward Herrmann.

The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 is a history book that details how in...