Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darien Gap Highway (Colombia and Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Darien Gap Highway
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darien Gap Highway (Colombia and Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Linking the Americans
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darien Gap Highway (Colombia and Panama).
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
"The Final Link"
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darien Gap Highway (Colombia and Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Darien Gap Highway, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... 91-1, on H.R. 12014 and 14903
Author: United States. Congress. House. Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Longest Line on the Map
Author: Eric RutkowPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 150110392X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
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.
Linking the Americas
Author: U S Government Accountability Office (GPublisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289116590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
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.
Road Fever
Author: Tim CahillPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307809374
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
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.
Darien Gap Highway
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on RoadsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darien Gap Highway (Colombia and Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Darien Gap
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Darien Gap Highway (Colombia and Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Crossing the Darien Gap
Author: Andrew Niall EganPublisher: Adventura Publishing
ISBN: 9780964794061
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
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.