Panama fever (37 page)
Authors: Matthew Parker
Tags: #History - General History, #Technology & Engineering, #History, #Central, #Central America, #Americas (North, #Central America - History, #United States - 20th Century (1900-1945), #United States, #Civil, #Civil Engineering (General), #General, #History: World, #Panama Canal (Panama) - History, #Panama Canal (Panama), #West Indies), #Latin America - Central America, #South, #Latin America
illiam Paterson, the Scottish promoter who declared that with possession of the Isthmus “trade will increase trade and money will beget money.”
pping the route for the Panama railroad through thick jungle and swamp.
embers of the American Selfridge expedition in the Darién jungle, 1870.
rmand Reclus, the young French naval lieutenant who mapped the route of the French canal and led the de Lesseps effort in its early years.
he hero of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps, depicted as Hercules pushing apart the continents of Africa and Asia.
erdinand de Lesseps with his second wife and some of his many offspring.
triumphal arch, part of the lavish welcome given to de Lesseps when he descended on Panama at the beginning of 1880, fêted as the “Presiding Genius of the Nineteenth Century.”