Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375708121ISBN-10:037570812XUPC:9780375708121Book Category:History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:United States, Middle East, CivilBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.96 x 5.20 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCE62D787P
Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780375708121ISBN-10:037570812XUPC:9780375708121Book Category:History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:United States, Middle East, CivilBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.96 x 5.20 x 0.88 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCE62D787P
Zachary Karabell was educated at Columbia; Oxford, where he received a degree in Modern Middle Eastern Studies; and Havard, where he received his Ph.D. in 1996. He has taught at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Dartmouth. He is the author of several books, including The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election, which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland prize. His...
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