Charles Smith’s Reviews > The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 > Status Update

There is a profound, illuminating dialogue between this book and Barbra Tuchman’s The Proud Tower. At times complementary and supplementary in others.

Measure, survey and contract out twice, trice, four times if necessary and cut checks ONCE!

Jungle Warfare, but without respecting the local climate.

Dueling banjo surveys.

Surveys on land to optimize navigation across the seas.