Parting the Desert The Creation of the Suez Canal

Name: Parting the Desert The Creation of the Suez Canal
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ISBN: 9780375708121

ISBN-10: 037570812X

ISBN-13: 9780375708121

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Authors: Zachary Karabell

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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 the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project through fifteen years of financial challenges, technical obstacles, and political intrigues. He convinced ordinary French citizens to invest their money, and he won the backing of Napoleon III and of Egypt's prince Muhammad Said. But the triumph was far from perfect: the construction relied…

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List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English