Parting the desert : the creation of the Suez Canal /
Karabell, Zachary
Parting the desert : the creation of the Suez Canal / Zachary Karabell. - New York : Knopf, 2004. - 310 σ. : εικ., χάρτες ; 25 εκ.
Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές (σ. 295-300) και ευρετήριο.
he twilight -- The French fall in love -- Industry and the Saint-Simonians -- A man, a plan, a canal --Egypt and Rome -- A journey in the desert -- Whose canal? -- The Sultan's shadow and the English lion
Hither and yon -- The emperor and the entrepreneur -- A universal company for a maritime canal -- The work ahead -- The Corvée -- The new viceroy and his minister -- Ferdinand fights back -- Men and machines -- The canal goes to Paris -- The final stages -- The desert is parted -- The legacy -- Epilogue: Ozymandias.
Tells the story of the creation of the Suez Canal--heralded as a symbol of progress that would unite nations--and the part played by its driving force, French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps.
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Lesseps, Ferdinand de 1805-1894.
Κανάλια (Αίγυπτος) --Σχεδιασμός και κατασκευή.--Σουέζ
Σουέζ, Διώρυγα του--Ιστορία.
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Parting the desert : the creation of the Suez Canal / Zachary Karabell. - New York : Knopf, 2004. - 310 σ. : εικ., χάρτες ; 25 εκ.
Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές (σ. 295-300) και ευρετήριο.
he twilight -- The French fall in love -- Industry and the Saint-Simonians -- A man, a plan, a canal --Egypt and Rome -- A journey in the desert -- Whose canal? -- The Sultan's shadow and the English lion
Hither and yon -- The emperor and the entrepreneur -- A universal company for a maritime canal -- The work ahead -- The Corvée -- The new viceroy and his minister -- Ferdinand fights back -- Men and machines -- The canal goes to Paris -- The final stages -- The desert is parted -- The legacy -- Epilogue: Ozymandias.
Tells the story of the creation of the Suez Canal--heralded as a symbol of progress that would unite nations--and the part played by its driving force, French diplomat and engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps.
037570812X 9780375708121
Lesseps, Ferdinand de 1805-1894.
Κανάλια (Αίγυπτος) --Σχεδιασμός και κατασκευή.--Σουέζ
Σουέζ, Διώρυγα του--Ιστορία.
386.430 9
