Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers
By Harry A. Franck · Running time 06:15:42 · History, Memoirs
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Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World , he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Panama as a census-taker and police officer. This work is a series of vignettes of the Panama Canal under construction, with plenty of color and dialect. NOTE: There are racial terms and attitudes expressed in this work that will be objectionable today. - Summary by TriciaG
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