I agree and I'll go further. I think the Path Between the Seas should be required reading in high schools. The students need an education to develop some baseline for the costs of human endeavor, the need for proper logistics and the value of the sweat of their grandfathers.
"I think the Path Between the Seas should be required reading in high schools."
Well on the bright side it has lots of pictures for those students who don't know all the big words.