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"Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers" is a non-fiction travelogue written by Harry Alverson Franck published in 1913. The author took a position as a police officer in the Panama Canal Zone, reporting his experiences and observations in a book that proved, like his debut, popular. A book with a theme of history and factual explanation.
An introducion to the geography, history, government, people, economy, and culture of the Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone.
Excerpt from The Panama Canal Zone: An Epochal Event in Sanitation Leaving New York for Colon, Monday, March 6th, we landed in New York on our return Thursday, March 30th, having passed ten days (13th to 23d) on the Isthmus and in the so-called Canal Zone. A winter voyage to Caribbean waters and a brief stay on the Darien Isthmus are not now so unusual as, under ordinary circumstances, to justify record, much less to call for one. Scarcely more exceptional than going to the Mediterranean by way of the Azores and Gibraltar, I should not, under ordinary circumstances, any more care to put detailed mention of it in the Proceedings of this Society than I would make record there of one of the num...