The Suez Canal : Letters and Documents Descriptive of its Rise and Progress in 1854–1856 /
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 distance by sea between Bombay and London, and he was instr...
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1876.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
| Series: | Cambridge library collection. Technology.
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794070 |
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The Suez Canal : Letters and Documents Descriptive of its Rise and Progress in 1854-1856 / 
The Suez Canal. Letters and documents descriptive of its rise and progress in 1854-1856