Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers
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"Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers" by Harry A. Franck is a non-fiction book published in 1913. Franck, a successful travel writer, took a three-month job as a police officer in the Panama Canal Zone to document the lives of workers building this engineering marvel. Working undercover and performing various duties including census-taking, he captured intimate portraits of the men operating steam shovels, handling
dynamite, and constructing the massive locks that would change global commerce. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Franck, Harry Alverson, 1881-1962 |
|---|---|
| Title | Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_Policeman_88 |
| Credits |
Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 64.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | F1561: Latin America local history: Panama |
| Subject | Police -- Panama -- Canal Zone |
| Subject | Panama Canal (Panama) |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 4786 |
| Release Date | Dec 1, 2003 |
| Last Update | Dec 28, 2020 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 501 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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