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Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-the Building of the Panama Canal
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The Sugar Barons
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2011
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Monte Cassino: The Hardest Fought Battle of World War II
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2003
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Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica
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2014
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Willoughbyland: England's Lost Colony
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2015
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The Battle of Britain July - October 1940
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2000
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Monte Cassino: The Story of One of the Hardest-fought Battles of World War Two
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Teaching Our Men, Reaching Our Fathers
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Planting Seeds of Hope
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1998
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Hell's Gorge: The Battle to Build the Panama Canal
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"Some books jump to the top of my 'to read' list as soon as I open them. This, loaned by a good friend, was definitely in that category - it might be because the D-Day Dodgers song appears near the beginning! It's told with such clarity and fluency th"
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"History as it should be: deeply researched, profoundly insightful, completely accessible, and vastly entertaining. The author uses a partial biography of Ian Fleming during his time in Jamaica as a tool for exploring the decline of the British Empire"
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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
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To produce rubber for his tyres, Henry Ford established a plantation in the Brazilian rainforest. It was a mad-cap scheme that reminds one of the film Fitzgeraldo. As with his most recent book The Empire of Necessity, Grandin uses the story to expand ...more | |
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“The square of every prime number is one more than a multiple of 24.”
― Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
― Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension
“The food is awful,” Jan wrote, “and cooked in such a way that no civilized white man can stand it for more than a week or two … Almost all the food is fried. They feed us fried green bananas, boiled rice, and foul-smelling salt fish. It rains so much that honest to goodness my hat is getting mouldy on my head… I haven't had on a pair of dry shoes in weeks.”
― Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
― Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
“Blanchet himself turned his attention to the rivers, establishing observation posts on the Chagres, Trinidad, Obispo, and the Río Grande; these were equipped with fluviographs, which confirmed the challenge that the rainy season would bring to the successful construction and running of the canal, with rivers rising 20 feet in as many hours and their rate of discharge increasing overnight from 3,000 to over 60,000 cubic feet per second. By”
― Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
― Panama Fever: The Epic Story of the Building of the Panama Canal
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