· Matthew Parker explores the fierce geo-political struggle behind the heroic vision of the canal, and the immense engineering and medical battles that were fought. But he also weaves in the stories of the ordinary men and women who worked on the canal, to evoke everyday life on the construction and depict the battle on the ground deep in 'Hell's Gorge'. Matthew Parker explores the fierce geo-political struggle behind the heroic vision of the canal, and the immense engineering and medical battles that were fought. But he also weaves in the stories of the ordinary men and women who worked on the canal, to evoke everyday life on the construction and depict the battle on the ground deep in 'Hell's Gorge'/5(36). Hell's Gorge tells the story of the Panama Canal, starting early on. Much before the first serious attempts at building a canal, the Panama Isthmus was already an important transport corridor - in the s this was how Peruvian silver made its way to Spain. A railroad was finished just after the start of the California Gold Rush in the early s/5(37).
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Hell's Gorge traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific bltadwin.ru human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of attrition comparable to many great battles. Welcome to the official site of Matthew Parker, author of Monte Cassino and Panama Fever - a new book about the construction of the Panama Canal. To build a canal linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans was a heroic dream that spanned four centuries. The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama. "Hell's Gorge" traces a heroic dream that spanned four centuries: to build a canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The human cost was immense: in appalling working conditions and amid epidemics of fever, tens of thousands perished fighting the jungle, swamps and mountains of Panama, a scale of attrition comparable to many great battles.
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