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PANAMA AND THE CANAL TO-DAY: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL PROJECT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ENTERPRISES OF THE FRENCH COMPANY AND THE UNITED STATES.
de Lindsay, Forbes
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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Boston: L.C. Page, 1912. 474 pp, 8 1/8" H. Beige cloth with gilt lettering/banding/decoration on spine and front board, top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers, tissue-covered frontispiece, b&w photographs, drawings, maps (three fold-out, 2 photographic) - collated. Title continued: "With a detailed description of the waterway as it will be ultimately constructed: together with a brief history of the country and the first comprehensive account of its physical features and natural resources." Contents: Part I. The Canal - Preface to Second Edition; Preface; The Dream of the Strait; Practical Projects; The Panama Railroad; The French Enterprise; The Transfer of the Canal; The American Enterprise; The Canal as It will be; The Work under Army Engineers; Along the Line of the Canal. Part II. The Country: Panama Viejo; Morgan Sets out for Panama; The March across the Isthmus; Morgan Sacks Panama; Panama of To-day; The Churches of Panama; The Country and Its Resources; The Ancient Graves of Chiriqui; Up-Country in a Coasting Steamer; David and the Interior; Preparing for Operations; Progress in Panama; Appendices; Index. Some areas of light browning on endpapers, small area of surface paper loss on free front endpaper, some light wrinkling on half-title page, light browning on fore-edge and on bottom of text block, first fold-out map has two edge tears at hinge archivally taped and one small corner crease, very slight fading to spine colour, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, a few tiny foxing marks at top inside edge of boards, light rubbing and wear on bottom of book, two very tiny light stains on rear board.. New Revised Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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- Capricorn Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 30104
- Título
- PANAMA AND THE CANAL TO-DAY: AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CANAL PROJECT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE ENTERPRISES OF THE FRENCH COMPANY AND THE UNITED STATES.
- Autor
- Lindsay, Forbes
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- New Revised Edition.
- Editorial
- L.C. Page
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1912
- Palabras clave
- Panama Canal, Canals, Waterways, Construction, Engineering, Central America, Early 20th Century, Panama Railroad, United States Army Engineers, Panama Viejo, Churches, Natural Resources, Graves, Chiriqui, Coasting Steames, Steamships, Isthmus of Panama, M
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History and Travel; American History & Travel; Science & Technology; Transportation;
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- New
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- Hinge
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Rubbing
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