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326 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781108026420
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 24 February 2011
Description
In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. He saw the immense benefits such a canal would bring, reducing by 3000 miles the distan...
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326 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781108026420
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 24 February 2011
Description
In the early 1850s the French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805 1894) revived earlier French plans to build a canal through the Isthmus of Suez. He saw the immense benefits such a canal would bring, reducing by 3000 miles the distan...