In the words of McCullough, “The creation of the Panama Canal was far more than a vast, unprecedented feat of engineering. It was a profoundly important historic event and a sweeping human drama not unlike that of war”. (11 Preface)

In reality McCullough was not entirely untruthful the dream and creation of the canal was a war, a war with nature, a war of people, and a war of evolution. People were drivin beyond their very limits

In The Path Between The Seas, McCullough’s basis for the book is to show how the canal was not only an ordeal for men during it’s construction, but how it was also an ordeal that lasted for several hundred years. The book in itself is a narrative b

In reading this book I realize that the book upon reading the first half seems to be entirely fiction. The great menace of the canal (in some cases) proved to be surreal. For example in one instance McCullough tells of the diversity in workers of the canal building and the medical catastrophe that was everyday work in the canal zone; McCullough explains about the conditions of one of the various canal hospitals and how that a doctor, showed a reporter from the New York Times a gruesome scene in which skulls were set out to dry in the sun. When the reporter asked the doctor why he had the collection of skulls on the fence, the doctor replied, “I plan on making a catalog of every race on earth in using the skulls of those who died of disease.” This instance however gruesome was effective in representing the true reality of the canal building.

This book helps to bring clear the connections between long past events and the building of the canal. Sometimes one does not connect the fact that numerous explorers such as John Cabot searched for a passage around the Americas to get to the Far East. The fabled passage through the Americas is comparable to Ponce Deleon’s search for the fountain of youth. In all reality the passage in the t

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