What Is the Panama Canal? - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Janet B. Pascal, Who Hq, Tim Foley (Illustrator)Series:What Was...Audience:Ages 9-12Publish date:2014-07-17Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Young Readers GroupISBN-13:9780448478999ISBN-10:448478994UPC:9780448478999Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:History, TechnologyBook Topic:Central & South America, United States, Machinery & ToolsSize:7.60 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCHEM5NPH2
What Is the Panama Canal?
Before 1914, traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast. But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world's most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Young Readers GroupISBN-13:9780448478999ISBN-10:448478994UPC:9780448478999Book Category:Juvenile NonfictionBook Subcategory:History, TechnologyBook Topic:Central & South America, United States, Machinery & ToolsSize:7.60 x 5.30 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCHEM5NPH2
Janet Pascal is an Executive Production Editor at Viking Children's Books and the author of Who Was Dr. Seuss?, Who Was Maurice Sendak?, and Who Was Abraham Lincoln? She lives in New York City.
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
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