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100 _aKarabell, Zachary
_9203236
_eσυγγραφέας.
245 1 0 _aParting the desert :
_bthe creation of the Suez Canal /
_cZachary Karabell.
260 _aNew York :
_bKnopf,
_c2004.
300 _a310 σ. :
_bεικ., χάρτες ;
_c25 εκ.
500 _a
504 _aΠεριλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές παραπομπές (σ. 295-300) και ευρετήριο.
505 _ahe 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.
520 _aTells 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.
600 4 _9203238
_aLesseps, Ferdinand de
_d1805-1894.
650 4 _aΚανάλια (Αίγυπτος)
_zΣουέζ
_xΣχεδιασμός και κατασκευή.
_9203237
651 4 _aΣουέζ, Διώρυγα του
_xΙστορία.
_9117826
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_cBK
998 _cΚΟΚΟΤΟΥ
_d2024-04.
999 _c220749
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