Panama Books


The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 Best Price: $8.20 David McCullough provides a fascinating description of the trails and tribulations that led to...	Panama Fever: The Epic Story of One of the Greatest Human Achievements of All Time-- the Building of the Panama Canal Best Price: $12.00 Parker's Panama Fever is a magazine article. The 500-page book is padded with mind-numbing...	A Guide to the Birds of Panama Best Price: $32.91 It remains the only guide specific to the birds of Panama so a birder headed to that country has...	The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs Best Price: $7.83 The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs by Ulrich Keller is a most fascinating...	Six Minutes to Freedom Best Price: $7.85 Almost from the first time I heard about Kurt Muse I felt that there was something missing in...



The Sack of Panama: Captain Morgan and the Battle for the Caribbean Best Price: $5.75 Peter Earl does it again. There have been a few titles on Henry Morgan's exploits on the Spanish...	Panama and the United States: The Forced Alliance (United States and the Americas) Best Price: $22.95 I recently wrote a U.S. History Term paper on the Panama Canal, and during the scamble for...	Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold Rush (The United States in the World) Best Price: $22.95 This book is really about the Watermelon Slice Incident in Panama City in 1856 when a mob of...	Emperors in the Jungle: The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama (American Encounters/Global Interactions) Best Price: $12.50 Very well researched but the author obviously has a chip on his shoulder. He takes every...	Reef Fish Identification: Baja to Panama Best Price: $26.01 This book, like all publications from these guys, is a fairly comprehensive field guide for...



Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Modern Age, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal (P.S.) Best Price: $0.74 Deborah Cadbury's Dreams of Iron and Steel is exceptionally well written, even for those with...	Gunboat Democracy: U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada, and Panama Best Price: $22.46 "Gunboat Democracy; U.S. Interventions in the Dominican Republic, Grenada and Panama,"...	The Phantom Gringo Boat: Shamanic Discourse and Development in Panama Best Price: $17.30 Trying to study the Embera or Choco people of southern Panama (and also northwestern Colombia)...	The U.S. Invasion of Panama: The Truth Behind Operational 'Just Cause' Best Price: $5.48 I've known a lot of Panamanians who experienced the invasion first hand, and I'm married to one....	The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas Best Price: $18.94 Great book, great story. Would have been an even better book if Balf had included more maps,...

How Wall Street Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama Canal Best Price: $4.75 Es un historia compleja, como lo son todas las historias reales. Hay que tomar en cuenta todos...	I-400 Japan's Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Submarine - Objective Panama Canal Best Price: $32.86 AS A SUBMARINE VETERAN, I FOUND THE INFORMATION VALUABLE. IT WAS AMAZING THAT A VESSEL OF THAT...	The Buccaneers of America Best Price: $2.39 This is probably the original source for information of pirates. It contains such a vast...	The Noriega Mess: The Drugs, the Canal, and Why America Invaded Best Price: $42.00 I read this book while in Panama and found it very good. I see now where the names for so many...	Panama in 1855. An account of the Panama railroad, of the cities of Panama and Aspinwall, with sketches of life and character on the Isthmus. By Robert Tomes. Best Price: $18.90 I grew up in Panama - born in 1935. This wonderful book takes me back to the early days, 40...

Panama: The Whole Story Best Price: $15.00 Buckley shows how America sometimes creates its own problems. This is shown by the rise and...	Pre-Columbian Designs from Panama (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) Best Price: $25.00 This is one of my favorites in the fine Dover Pictorial Archives series. As in almost all of...	In Defiance: The Battle Against General Noriega Fought from Panama's Embassy in Washington Best Price: $22.12 Noriega was one of the most controversial figures in Latin America. Sosa fought against Noriega...	The Sack of Panama Best Price: $29.72 A nice read about the sack of Panama City by the pirate Henry Morgan. Of course to the British,...	Panama Odyssey

The Banana Wars: A History of United States Military Intervention in Latin America from the Spanish-American War to the Invasion of Panama Musicant has worked together a series of small histories of Western Hemisphere campaigns by...	Dreams of Iron and Steel: Seven Wonders of the Nineteenth Century, from the Building of the London Sewers to the Panama Canal Best Price: $1.29 Well-done vignettes about the "seven wonders of the Nineteenth Century", the...	Destiny by Design : The Construction of the Panama Canal Best Price: $29.95 Just want to note that there is a new book out showing the in depth construction of the Panama...	Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama (Comstock Book) Best Price: $27.30 Living in Costa Rica, I purchased Robert L. Dresser's: "Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa...	The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective Best Price: $10.00 LaFeber book is the ultimate history for US-Panamanian relations. His telling of this history is...

Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme or Castilla del Oro, and of the Discovery of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua Best Price: $16.99 Translated by Clements R. Markham. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1865...	Red, white, and blue paradise: The American Canal Zone in Panama Mr. Stinson's Amazon review of this book is right-on! I've just finished reading the book and...	THE BUNAU-VARILLA BROTHERS AND THE PANAMA CANAL Best Price: $19.95	Juan Ponce de Leon Best Price: $3.16 Juan Ponce de Le??n As a young man he joined the war to conquer Granada, the last Moorish state...	Enemy Within: Casting Out Panama's Demon

Land Divided, the World United : The Story of the Panama Canal	Guardians of the Life Stream: Shamans, Art and Power in Prehispanic Central Panama Best Price: $34.32 This book has got a very useful conpendium of the archaeology of the central region of panama,...	Dottings on the Roadside, in Panama, Nicaragua, and Mosquito Best Price: $25.99 This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1869 edition by Chapman and Hall, London.	Drawing the Line at the Big Ditch: The Panama Canal Treaties and the Rise of the Right Best Price: $15.45 Adam Clymer has attempted to demonstrate that the Panama Canal Treaties strongly impacted the...	Just Cause: The Real Story of America's High-Tech Invasion of Panama The book is a dramatized account of key operations during Operation Just cause. It still is...

River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte Best Price: $14.94	Operation Just Cause: The Storming of Panama Best Price: $22.95	Portrait of the Panama Canal: From Construction to the Twenty-First Century (International Portrait Series) Best Price: $15.94 Friar does an excellent job of giving the reader an overview of all of the major events that...	Is There a Hole in the Boat?: Tales of Travel in Panama without a Car Best Price: $12.65 Whatever the genre, I enjoy books that intrigue my mind and engage my emotions in unexpected...	The Anthropology of World's Fairs: San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915 Best Price: $64.99

The History of Panama (The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) Best Price: $45.00 As the narrowest stretch of land in the Central American isthmus, Panama's geographical location...	Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna (LLILAS Translations from Latin America Series) Best Price: $10.47 What should books about indigenous peoples strive for - acceptance among academics or the native...	In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama, 1968-1990 Best Price: $49.40	Prize Possession: The United States Government and the Panama Canal 1903-1979 Best Price: $48.98 Prize Possession is a comprehensive history of U.S. policy toward the Panama Canal between 1903...	The Price of Scotland: Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations Best Price: $31.60 Watt offers a fascinating account of a tumultuous period in Scottish history when the country...

Panama: The Truth About the U.S. Invasion Best Price: $5.00	California illustrated; including a description of the Panama and Nicaragua routes. By a returned Californian. Best Price: $21.04 This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan...	Panama-Echoes From A Revolution Best Price: $16.87 If nothing else, this book will inform you as to how treacherous your supposed...	San Francisco Invites the World: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915	The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society) Best Price: $61.02 The author deserves great praise for a very well written account on a subject often ignored by...

Writing from the Edge of the World: The Memoirs of Darien, 1514-1527 Best Price: $20.71 A stirring account of Spain’s incursion into the New World. Gonzalo Fern??ndez...	In the Time of Tyrants: Panama : 1968-1990 I found a copy of the Time for Tyrants in Panama in 1999, and read it in total fascination. I...

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