The Bunau-Varilla Brothers and the Panama Canal

This book unravels the secrets of the Bunau-Varilla brothers' fortune, made in the construction of the French Canal in Panama in 1886-1889.It also tells how Philippe Bunau-Varilla managed from 1899 to 1903, spending most of his fortune, to convince the US Government to select Panama instead of Nicaragua for the Central American Canal. Packed with original facts, never revealed before, this book is the real Panama Canal story.