text What is the Panama Canal?
- Summary
- "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 fe... Read more
- Contents
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What is the Panama Canal? -- From the Atlantic to the Pacific -- A railroad built on corpses -- A canal? -- The French try their hand -- The United States steps in -- War! -- Killing mosquitoes -- A man with a plan -- Finishing the job -- Success! -- The Canal today.
- Format
- text
- Description
- 108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
- Publisher
- Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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