Author Cristina Henriquez subsequent to the cowl of her new novel, The Great Divide.
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Author Cristina Henriquez subsequent to the cowl of her new novel, The Great Divide.
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The Panama Canal has been dubbed the biggest engineering feat in human historical past. It’s additionally (maybe much less favorably) been referred to as the biggest liberty mankind has ever taken with Mother Nature. Both of these descriptors are at odds as we speak; attributable to local weather change, the Canal is drying up and fewer than half of the ships that used to cross by at the moment are ready to take action. So how did we get right here? Today on the present, we’re speaking to Cristina Henriquez, the writer of a brand new novel that explores the making of the Canal. It took 50,000 individuals from 90 totally different nations to carve the land in two — and the penalties of that extraordinary, nature-defying act are nonetheless echoing by our current.
This episode was hosted by Gene Demby and B.A. Parker, produced by Christina Cala, and edited by Leah Donnella.
