Download or read book Darien Gap Highway written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Linking the Americans written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Longest Line on the Map written by Eric Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Final Link written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Darien Gap Highway Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads 91 1 on H R 12014 and 14903 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossing the Darien Gap written by Andrew Niall Egan and published by Adventura Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Linking the Americas written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Road Fever written by Tim Cahill and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Obsessions Die Hard written by Ed Culberson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culberson set his sights on riding Amigo, his BMW R80 G/S, the entire length of the Pan American Highway-including the Darien Gap, a feat never before accomplished by a motorcyclist. He suffers failure before meeting success, encountering killer bees, arrest by a corrupt law officer, cycling injuries, and back-breaking labour to get himself ......
Download or read book Darien Gap Highway written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Obsessions Die Hard written by Ed Culberson and published by Octane Press. This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adventure of a Lifetime Obsessions Die Hard is the story of Ed Culberson's determination to fulfill his dream. As a teenager he was fascinated with the Pan-American Highway System, which runs the length of North and South America. In his early forties, he acquired another passion--motorcycling. It was only natural that he would merge the two. Culberson, then a retired U.S. Army officer, wanted to ride his motorcycle along the Pan-American Highway's entire route between Alaska and Argentina. However, in the Darién region of eastern Panama and western Colombia the road is broken by an 80-mile gap filled with jungles, rain forests, rivers, and swamps, forcing travelers to detour around it by boat or plane. The area is so inhospitable and unexplored that a myth about its impenetrability has evolved over the centuries, and a curse aimed at Darién trespassers shrouds the region. But the Darién Gap, known as el tapón del Darién--the Stopper--didn't dim Culberson's dream. It became his obsession. In the face of staggering obstacles, Culberson suffers failure before meeting success, encountering killer bees, arrest by a corrupt law officer, cycling injuries, and back-breaking labor to get himself and "Amigo," his motorcycle, through the torturous jungles and swamps. He also encounters strangers who become friends, including Cuna Indians who guide him and share his triumphs. A story of one man's struggle with his own obsession, this is an amazing tale of human endurance and perseverance. All royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to ALS of Texas.
Download or read book The Darien Gap written by and published by . This book was released on 1958* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Linking the Americas written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linking the Americas: Progress and Problems of the Darien Gap Highway
Download or read book Final Environmental Impact Assessment for Darien Gap Highway from Tocumen Panama to Rio Leon Colombia written by United States. Federal Highway Administration and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 10 Years on 2 Wheels written by Helge Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Construction of the Panama Segment of the Darien Gap Highway written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Darien Gap written by Martin Mitchinson and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to drive from North America to South America, youll have a hard time when you reach Panamas southernmost province, Darien. The Pan-American Highway ends just sixty miles short of Colombia. This book presents the history of the region.
