Matthew Parker - Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal (Vintage)

Insert One

Vasco Nez de Balboa (from History of the Panama Canal by Ira E. Bennett, Washington, 1915)

William Paterson (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Mapping the route for the Panama Railroad (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Members of the American Selfridge expedition (from The Land Di-videdby Gerstle Mack, New York, 1944)

Armand Reclus (from Panama: Armand Reclus et le Canal des Deux Ocans by Grard Fauconnier, Paris, 2004)

Ferdinand de Lesseps cartoon (Plon/Perrin)

Ferdinand de Lesseps with family (Getty Images)

Triumphal arch (Getty Images)

Charles de Lesseps (from Panama: The Creation, Destruction, and Resurrection by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, New York, 1914)

Coln Harbor (from Panama and the Canal in Pictures and Prose by J. Willis Abbot, New York and London, 1913)

The beginning of the big ditch (from The Panama Canal [Building History Series] by Tim McNeese, Chicago, 1997)

Jules Dingler (from Panama: The Creation, Destruction, and Resurrection by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, New York, 1914)

The execution of Pedro Prestan (Panama Canal Company)

A French ladder excavator (Corbis)

Philippe Bunau-Varilla (from Panama: The Creation, Destruction, andResurrection by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, New York, 1914)

Bottle Alley in Coln (from Panama and the Canal in Pictures and Prose by J. Willis Abbot, New York and London, 1913)

Huerne, Slaven & Co. dredges at work (from From Cadiz to Cathay by Miles Duval, Stanford, 1940)

Works in the Culebra Cut (from Panama: The Creation, Destruction, andResurrection by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, New York, 1914)

Canal Company trial cartoon (by Ppin in Grelot, November 1892)

Wreckage from the French era (Getty Images)

Panama Revolution cartoon (from P. Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography by Henry F Pringle, New York, 1931)

William Nelson Cromwell (Corbis)

General Esteban Huertas (from From Cadiz to Cathay by Miles Duval, Stanford, 1940)

Insert Two

A steamer carrying laborers from Barbados (Getty Images)

An ICC-run mess kitchen for West Indian workers (from History of the Panama Canal by Ira E. Bennett, Washington, 1915)

Fumigation squad (from The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs by Ulrich Keller, New York, 1983)

Doctor William Gorgas (Corbis)

Cemetery on the western slope of Ancn Hill (from Panama and the Canal in Pictures and Prose by J. Willis Abbot, New York and London, 1913)

John Stevens (Corbis)

Spreader at work (from Panama and What It Means by John Foster Fraser, London, 1913)

Theodore Roosevelt (Getty Images)

West Indian wedding party (from The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs by Ulrich Keller, New York, 1983)

Commissary store (from The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs by Ulrich Keller, New York, 1983)

Claude Mallet (from the private collection of Mrs. Primrose Mallet-Harris)

Spanish track workers (from The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs by Ulrich Keller, New York, 1983)

Steam shovels at work (from The Strength to Move a Mountain by W. S. Lee, New York, 1958)