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 |
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