Destiny by Design

Can$29.95
978-1-894384-13-1

Author-Jeremy Snapp

Author/photographer Jeremy Snapp has produced a dramatic photo-essay of rare images that depict events in the decade preceding the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914.

The construction of this canal was one of the great engineering feats of the early 20th century. In the 1880s the canal project was plagued by the loss of many lives as tropical disease undermined the efforts of the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps. Fifteen years later, the United States initiated an ingenious plan that joined the Atlantic to the Pacific while meeting the defense criteria of the U.S. military.

Original photos taken by Snapp's great-grandfather Gerald Sherman, a respected mining engineer of the day, deliver a technical perspective of this undertaking unlike anything previously published. Finally, as the U.S. ceded authority over the canal to the Panamanian government in 1999, Jeremy Snapp travelled to the canal zone with an antique camera to capture images of the original buildings and construction relics that remained.

The book incorporates photographic and book production techniques in use at the time the canal was built. The result is a publishing masterpiece that looks and feels like it was produced in 1914.

9.5 x 10.5, 176 pages, hardcover

 

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