The Resource The longest line on the map : the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas, Eric Rutkow
The longest line on the map : the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas, Eric Rutkow
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The item The longest line on the map : the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas, Eric Rutkow represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover).
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- Summary
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- Chronicles the epic quest to connect the Americas via the Pan American Highway, detailing how its construction and evolution reflected two centuries of divergent history
- "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.' [This book] 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."--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vii, 438 pages
- Contents
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- Part I: The rail. The magnificent conception ; The eagle and the octopus ; The route of volcanoes
- Interlude. Out of the muck
- Part II: The road. Good roads make good neighbors ; The far western front ; Freedom road ; The missing link
- Isbn
- 9781501103919
- Label
- The longest line on the map : the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas
- Title
- The longest line on the map
- Title remainder
- the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas
- Statement of responsibility
- Eric Rutkow
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Chronicles the epic quest to connect the Americas via the Pan American Highway, detailing how its construction and evolution reflected two centuries of divergent history
- "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.' [This book] 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."--Dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rutkow, Eric
- Dewey number
- 388.1/22097
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HE358
- LC item number
- .R88 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Pan American Highway System
- Roads
- United States
- America
- Diplomatic relations
- Pan American Highway System
- Roads
- America
- United States
- Label
- The longest line on the map : the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas, Eric Rutkow
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-424)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I: The rail. The magnificent conception ; The eagle and the octopus ; The route of volcanoes -- Interlude. Out of the muck -- Part II: The road. Good roads make good neighbors ; The far western front ; Freedom road ; The missing link
- Control code
- on1043489224
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- vii, 438 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501103919
- Lccn
- 2018043679
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1043489224
- Label
- The longest line on the map : the United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the quest to link the Americas, Eric Rutkow
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-424)
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Part I: The rail. The magnificent conception ; The eagle and the octopus ; The route of volcanoes -- Interlude. Out of the muck -- Part II: The road. Good roads make good neighbors ; The far western front ; Freedom road ; The missing link
- Control code
- on1043489224
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- vii, 438 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501103919
- Lccn
- 2018043679
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1043489224
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