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 Alverson Franck

"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.) Reading ease score: 64.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Originally issued 2003-12-01. Transcribed by Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines.. This work is in the public domain in the United States. Sourced from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4786).
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Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers

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