I wormed my way through the fawning, neck-craning, many-shaded mob of political henchmen and obsequious petitioners into the sacred hushed precincts of Panama police headquarters. A paunched "Spigoty" with a shifty eye behind large bowed glasses, vainly striving to exude dignity and wisdom, received me with the oily smirk of the Panamanian office-holder who feels the painful necessity of keeping on outwardly good terms with all Americans. I flashed my badge and mentioned a name.
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Excellent account of life & times in the panama Canal zone.,
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This review is from: Zone Policeman 88 (American imperialism) (Hardcover)
This book was enjoyable reading...but it does not hold a candle to his other works. For his best work read: Vagabonding Down the Andes (Garden City Publishing 1917) and A Vagabond Journey Around the World (The Century Co.
1910) You will probably have to look around for copies of both books...but they're out there.
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My father wrote it and I am therefore biased.,
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It was one of his earliest books, the first being "A Vagabond Journey Around the World" (1910?). He wrote a total of almost 30 travel books, the final one in 1940. In WWII he managed to lie about his age and get a commission in the Army Air Corps (true age 61), serving as a historical officer at Amarillo A. F. Base, Lowry A. F. Base, and finally in the Battle of the Bulge with the 9th Air Force. He died in 1962, suffering from Parkinsonism.Book list on request. psheffld@warwick.com
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This is a fascinating look at Canal construction life.,
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This review is from: Zone Policeman 88 (American imperialism) (Hardcover)
Harry Franck presents a delightful and highly entertaining look into the past and culture of the Panama Canal Zone. I thoroughly enjoyed this first hand account of the early days of Canal construction. A must read for all present and past Zonians.
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Strip by strip there opened out before me, as I climbed the "Thousand Stairs" to the red-roofed Administration Building, the broad panorama of Panama and her bay; below, the city of closely packed roofs and three-topped plazas compressed in a scallop of the sun-gleaming Pacific, with its peaked and wooded islands to far Taboga tilting motionless away to the curve of the earth; behind, the low, irregular jungled hills stretching hazily of into South America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Canal Zone, Uncle Sam, Pedro Miguel, West Indian, Bas Obispo, New York, Gatun Lake, New Gatun, Lieutenant Long, United States, South America, Avenida Central, Corporal Macey, Old Fritz, Railroad Avenue, San Francisco, Central America, East Balboa, Naos Island, Old Timers New!
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Strip by strip there opened out before me, as I climbed the "Thousand Stairs" to the red-roofed Administration Building, the broad panorama of Panama and her bay; below, the city of closely packed roofs and three-topped plazas compressed in a scallop of the sun-gleaming Pacific, with its peaked and wooded islands to far Taboga tilting motionless away to the curve of the earth; behind, the low, irregular jungled hills stretching hazily of into South America. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Canal Zone, Uncle Sam, Pedro Miguel, West Indian, Bas Obispo, New York, Gatun Lake, New Gatun, Lieutenant Long, United States, South America, Avenida Central, Corporal Macey, Old Fritz, Railroad Avenue, San Francisco, Central America, East Balboa, Naos Island, Old Timers New!
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