Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers

He policed the biggest construction site on earth, and wrote it down. Harry Franck took a job as a census patrolman in the Canal Zone precisely so he could see it from the inside: the jungle camps, the steam shovels, the labor gangs from thirty nations, the fever, the graft, and the strange colonial town that grew around the ditch. You will discover a sharp, funny, unsentimental eyewitness to the Panama Canal at full tilt. The greatest engineering job, from the ground. Press play and walk the line.