Old Panama and Castilla del Oro
by Charles L. G. Anderson
New York : North River Press, 1944
Description : 559 p. ; 9 ½ inches
This is a narrative history of the discovery, conquest and settlement of Central America by the Spaniards. It includes a description of the aborigines of the Isthmus, accounts of the search for a strait through the New World, and early efforts for a canal. Originally published in 1911, the author was a physician for the Isthmian Canal Commission.