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You will gain a whole new perspective of history, and events, by reading antiquarian history books.
The style, and the prose, and the drama, of a book created in a distant, and bygone era, lends a perspective that is lost in modern works. Antiquarian works are also a reflection of the times in which they were written. Popular topics, such as the American Civil War, or the building of the Panama Canal, or the San Francsico Earthquake of 1906, were never so alive as when written about in the early 1900's.
Unfortunately, there are not enough antiquarian books to go around, and, besides, they are often too delicate to read.
That's where eBookJoint Publishing, LLC, comes in. We convert antiquarian works into a digital format for easy reading and browsing on your computer screen.
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Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose – 1913
At eBookJoint, we create unique, quality electronic publications that are menu driven, colorful, soundful, searchable, printable, and bookmarkable.
THIS ebook publication is derived from an original Antiquarian book entitled:
Panama and the Canal
In Picture and Prose
by Willis J. Abbot
copyrighted in 1913
published by
Syndicate Publishing Company
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As the title implies, this book is loaded with pictures; primarily photographs, however there are line drawings, and tables, and sketches, etc. There are over 400 pages of text, and over 600 pictures, and 16 color plates.
Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose tells the history of Panama, and the building of the Panama Canal. It is a story of early explorers, and discoveries, of peoples, and politics, and an incredible amount of simple human spirit, ingenuity, hard work, planning, and desire.
The textual style, prose, grammar, spelling, punctuation, even word usage, and descriptions, are somewhat different than our modern day expectations, but that only serves to enhance the experience; they certainly add a post-Victorian drama that is something to smile about. For example, note the drama in the following quote from the Introduction:
PANAMA. They say the word means "a place of many fishes," but there is some dissension about the exact derivation of the name of the now severed Isthmus. Indeed dissension, quarrels, wars and massacres have been the prime characteristics of Panama for four hundred years. "A place of many battles" would be a more fitting significance for the name of this tiny spot where man has been doing ceaseless battle with man since history rose to record the conflicts. As deadly as the wars between men of hostile races, has been the unceasing struggle between man and nature.
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