The Suez Canal by Ferdinand De Lesseps

The Suez Canal

Ferdinand De Lesseps with N. D'Anvers (Translator)

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nonfiction history
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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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