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Parting the Desert : The Creation of the Suez Canal
Parting the Desert The Creation of the Suez Canal
Author: Zachary Karabell
Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century -- the building of the Suez Canal -- and shows how it changed the world. — The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780375708121
ISBN-10: 037570812X
Publication Date: 5/11/2004
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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