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Panama

O homeland, so small, lying across an isthmus
where the sky is clearer and the sun more vibrant,
all your music resounds in me, just as
the sea does in the small chamber of the shell!

Ricardo Miró Patria (1909), translated for blonde.travel
The Building of the Panama Canal in Historic Photographs by Ulrich Keller, with a steam dredge at work in a flooded canal cut on its black-and-white cover.

For your coffee table

The Building of the Panama Canal

In Historic Photographs

Dover Publications

The great dig in its official construction photographs, from Culebra Cut to the opening in 1914.

Paperback · 164 historic photographs

21.6 × 28.6 cm

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An open spread showing the S.S. Ancon passing Cucaracha Slide on the Canal’s opening day, beside photographs of a dredge and the battleship Texas in a lock.

Some of my Instagram posts from Panama

Olga in an orange dress beneath a bougainvillea-draped colonial façade in Casco Viejo, beside a costumed devil figure.Olga walking beside a rooftop pool among the glass towers of Panama City.Olga half-submerged in clear Caribbean water beside a starfish, with palms on the shore behind.