作者:
David McCullough
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大卫·麦卡洛 出版社: Simon & Schuster 副标题: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 出版年: 1978-10-15 页数: 698 定价: USD 20.00 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9780671244095
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. The Path Between the Seas tells the story of the men and ...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Truman, here is the national bestselling epic chronicle of the creation of the Panama Canal. In The Path Between the Seas, acclaimed historian David McCullough delivers a first-rate drama of the sweeping human undertaking that led to the creation of this grand enterprise. 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. It is a story of astonishing engineering feats, tremendous medical accomplishments, political power plays, heroic successes, and tragic failures. Applying his remarkable gift for writing lucid, lively exposition, McCullough weaves the many strands of the momentous event into a comprehensive and captivating tale. Winner of the National Book Award for history, the Francis Parkman Prize, the Samuel Eliot Morison Award, and the Cornelius Ryan Award (for the best book of the year on international affairs), The Path Between the Seas is a must-read for anyone interested in American history, the history of technology, international intrigue, and human drama.
Once, in a paper addressed "To the Young Engineers Who Must Carry On," Stevens said something with which all of these remarkable men would assuredly have agreed - for all that had happened to the world since Panama.
His faith in the human intellect and its creative capacities remained undaunted, Stevens wrote. The great works had still to come. "I believe that we are but children picking up pebbles on the shore of the boundless ocean..." (查看原文)
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0 有用 庄常飞 2025-01-17 06:30:40 美国
书意想不到得好看，本来以为会是大量的工程知识（确实也有一些），但更多的是19世纪法国马斯克的兴衰及如何和各方势力撕，美国政治怎么撕和lobby，巴拿马和哥伦比亚怎么撕，热带疾病怎么治疗（以及针对科学进步怎么撕），大型机构怎么管理（和撕），总而言之与人斗其乐无穷，干任何事都不容易（何况是这样的大事） PS 从本书中看出看作家判断一本书是否值得读比看主题更准确