Название: The Panama Railroad (Railroads Past and Present)
Автор: Peter Pyne
Издательство: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253052076
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 418
Размер: 13,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat―they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed.