Panama Fever

I’ve just finished Panama Fever by Matthew Parker. It’s a history book about the building of the Panama Canal that reads like an adventure. Wonderfully researched it provides us with an understanding of the problems in Panama-US relations and the racism which dehumanized the West Indian laborers working under both the French and the US canal administrations.

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