Epic High

“Few great feats of engineering have been steeped in as much passion and tragedy as the Panama Canal, and no one tells the story better than Matthew Parker. Through meticulous research and vivid, vigorous prose, Parker has captured the frenzy surrounding the canal and the heartbreaking toll that it took on the thousands of men who set off like soldiers to Panama’s ‘Fever Coast,’ never to return.”
—Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey