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Parting the desert

the creation of the Suez Canal

by Zachary Karabell

2003 310 pages eng

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 …

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