Zone Policeman 88; A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers

Harry A. Franck (1881 - 1962)

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

Genre(s): History, Memoirs

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Chapter 1, part 1 ToddHW
00:18:37
Play 02 Chapter 1, part 2 ToddHW
00:20:54
Play 03 Chapter 2 Mickey Lee Rich
00:35:12
Play 04 Chapter 3, part 1 ToddHW
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Play 05 Chapter 3, part 2 ToddHW
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Play 06 Chapter 4, part 1 KHand
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Play 07 Chapter 4, part 2 KHand
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Play 08 Chapter 5, part 1 ToddHW
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Play 09 Chapter 5, part 2 ToddHW
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Play 10 Chapter 6, part 1 KHand
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Play 11 Chapter 6, part 2 KHand
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Play 12 Chapter 7 Mickey Lee Rich
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Play 13 Chapter 8, part 1 Mickey Lee Rich
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Play 14 Chapter 8, part 2 KHand
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Play 15 Chapter 9, part 1 Lynda Marie Neilson
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Play 16 Chapter 9, part 2 Lynda Marie Neilson
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Play 17 Chapter 10 Lynda Marie Neilson
00:31:50