The Suez Canal : Letters and Documents Descriptive of its Rise and Progress in 1854–1856 /

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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 distance by sea between Bombay and London, and he was instr...

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Main Author: Lesseps, Ferdinand de (Author)
Other Authors: D’Anvers, N. (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1876.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Series:Cambridge library collection. Technology.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511794070
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