Darien Gap Highway

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darien Gap Highway written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linking the Americans written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eric Rutkow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150110392X
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Longest Line on the Map written by Eric Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of American Canopy, a dazzling account of the world’s longest road, the Pan-American Highway, and the epic quest to link North and South America, a dramatic story of commerce, technology, politics, and the divergent fates of the Americas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Pan-American Highway, monument to a century’s worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highway’s history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American Highway—the United States’ other great twentieth-century hemispheric infrastructure project—has become an orphan of the past, effectively erased from the story of the “American Century.” The Longest Line on the Map uncovers this incredible tale for the first time and weaves it into a tapestry that fascinates, informs, and delights. Rutkow’s narrative forces the reader to take seriously the question: Why couldn’t the Americas have become a single region that “is” and not two near irreconcilable halves that “are”? Whether you’re fascinated by the history of the Americas, or you’ve dreamed of driving around the globe, or you simply love world records and the stories behind them, The Longest Line on the Map is a riveting narrative, a lost epic of hemispheric scale.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Final Link" written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Public Works
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darien Gap Highway, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... 91-1, on H.R. 12014 and 14903 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Niall Egan
Publisher : Adventura Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780964794061
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Darien Gap written by Andrew Niall Egan and published by Adventura Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ever plan to travel between North America and South America, you must consider that there is no road. Ten hours southeast of the Panama Canal, the Pan-American Highway penetrates the jungle, shrivels into a footpath and dies. The highway resurrects in Colombia, another continent. But the land between the two countries is a vast and primitive realm. On a map the two ends of the highway appear as two slivers of life, separated by the unknown. Filling this void is a rugged wilderness known as the Darien Rainforest. Because the Darien hinders all contact by land between North America and South America, it has earned the name "the Darien Gap." Yet most travelers never encounter the Darien Gap. When they go to South America they fly or perhaps take a boat. I decided to cross the Darien overland, traversing from Panama to Colombia by foot and riverboat.

Author : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher : BiblioGov
ISBN 13 : 9781289116590
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linking the Americas written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, the United States, Colombia, and Panama agreed to construct the final link in the Pan American Highway system, the Darien Gap, through parts of Colombia and Panama. In 1968, the highway was estimated to cost $150 million, with the United States contributing $100 million (66%) and Panama and Colombia contributing $30 million and $20 million respectively. In March 1977, Department of Transportation officials estimated the total cost would be $285 million, almost twice the original estimate. As of July 31, 1977, about $59 million had been expended on the highway. The completion date for the link, originally scheduled for 1981, has slipped more than 4 years to 1985, but this date is not now valid. Progress has been delayed by lower-than-anticipated congressional funding and by a court injunction on design and new construction. In addition, the National Security Council advised against participation in highway construction in Colombia until the spread of foot-and-mouth disease is controlled. U.S. officials have expressed concern that completion of the highway could result in the spread of the disease northward to cattle in the United States, Mexico, and Central America. Colombia has not yet implemented certain safeguards outlined in a 1973 agreement, including adequate inspection and control of livestock. Colombian officials have proposed expanding the control program along the entire north coast.

Author : Tim Cahill
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307809374
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Road Fever written by Tim Cahill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tim Cahill reports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty three and a half days.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darien Gap Highway written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721784448
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linking the Americas written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking the Americas: Progress and Problems of the Darien Gap Highway