More Free Books

Manybooks.net, another source of stuff that's now in the public domain.

I came across this site on one of the gun forums, where a member there posted a link to a book titled "Zone Policeman 88" by Harry A Franck. Franck was in the Canal Zone as the Panama Canal was being dug. He first hired on as a census enumerator and was able to go over much of the Zone in that job. The description of what it was like on the floor of the huge digs and the living conditions alone is worth the time to read.

I've only now reached the point where he started work as a cop. There was no such thing as a police academy back then, it was all on-the-job training.

Franck apparently was one of the great travel-writers of the first half of the last century. I imagine that I'll be reading more of his work.